March 12.
A Private Plan Prevails

Exodus 2:3

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.

Pharaoh had charged that every Hebrew boy be cast into the river. God chose this time for the arrival of Moses. An expectant mother who loves her unborn baby begins thinking about her baby’s life long before the due date. She may pray for the health of the child and that she will be a good mother to the child. Can you imagine the mother of Moses? Maybe she prayed for the child to be a girl so she wouldn’t have to watch him drown. What a distressing situation! When Moses was born, his mother believed God’s hand was on him, so she hid him for three months. If she had been caught, she could have lost her life. She risked the lives of the whole family for just one child. The presence of faith is obvious in the lives of Moses’ mother and father.

Faith will cause a person to do things they would not normally do. Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is the substance of things hoped for. Substance is something you stand upon. So Moses’ parents made a little ark and hid Moses in the river among the bulrushes. They didn’t know what God would do, but they believed He would do something. One day Pharaoh’s daughter came to the river and found the baby and took him for her own. Miriam, Moses’ sister, ran to her and offered to bring a Hebrew nurse for the baby. So Moses’ own mother was able to care for him and influence his life as a child. Moses became a protected child. However, if Moses had been brought up totally in his parents’ home, he wouldn’t have received formal education and training about the ins and outs of the federal government. Because Moses’ parents put their faith in God, obeying God and not man, Moses lived to fulfill that plan.