Exodus 2: 1-4: “And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.”
Even though the nation of Israel was enslaved they still continued their lives. They didn’t give up and succumb to self pity but were determined to continue the nation as though they were free. It was the perseverance that took Israel through their years of slavery in Egypt and, much later, through their years of exile in Babylon. In fact, this perseverance has kept Israel going to this very day even though they had no homeland from AD 135 until AD 1948. What is the use of families having children if they are just meant to kill any boys that are born? In this case Moses’ mother kept her son for as long as she could, which was three months and then she trusted the child to the Lord’s care and put him in a waterproof box in the river Nile. She still longed for her child so she sent her older daughter to watch the baby and see what happened. Christians live in a world where there is often persecution and trial but we are called to persevere (see Hebrews 12: 3-5, “For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:”) It is good for us to trust our children to the Lord and He will take care of them.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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