Exodus 1: 18-22: “And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty. And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses. And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.”
While it is true that God can work miraculously to do His will on earth, He also uses ordinary people. In fact, Christianity is simply a matter of small people doing small things in a small way in conjunction with Almighty God doing Almighty things in His Almighty way. These women were in exactly the same boat as we, who deny ourselves, take up our crosses daily and follow the Lord Jesus Christ today. When this passage says that the God made the women houses it doesn’t mean that he gave them buildings. The first time that the word “house” occurs in the Bible is in Gen 7: 1 (“And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.”) This tells us that Noah has an everlasting heritage before the Lord and, in fact, his descendants are still alive today and populating the whole of the earth. The families of these women didn’t die out and their descendants are still alive today. The greatest miracle that comes from Almighty God doing Almighty things in His Almighty way is everlasting life. If you fear God today and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ then you will have an everlasting house and a mansion in heaven (“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14: 1-3) Does you have your name on a mansion in heaven, do you have a house?
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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