Mothers have been known to do desperate things to save their children from danger. Exodus 2:1-10 describes faith exercised in a desperate situation, but even more importantly, points you to God’s faithfulness in Christ.
Trust God, even when times are desperate. You, like the Hebrews in Egypt, live in desperate times. Pharaoh’s atrocity may not be practiced in our country against believers (at least yet), but Christians in parts of the world do face similar persecution. Pharaoh, having found that neither harsh slavery nor ordering the midwives to murder the baby boys worked, now orders that Hebrew baby boys be thrown into the Nile.
By faith Jochebed kept alive the future deliverer. Jochebed, not mentioned by name until Exodus 6, recognized something beautiful about her boy, see Exodus 2:2; Acts 7:20. Certainly Moses was not the only handsome baby born in Goshen. Nor was Jochebed the only mother to think her son was beautiful. More is going on here—she and her husband have some kind of recognition, some kind of trust, that in their son God is going to prove faithful to his people. They acted in faith. More is going on here than maternal instincts. Thus she hid the baby, then resorted to the ark. Miriam, apparently a young teenager, not only watches over her brother, but has the wisdom to speak to the princess at the right moment and suggest a Hebrew nurse for the baby. Jochebed may not have know all that her son would do, but she did know that it was wrong to kill her baby. Instead of fearing the king, she obeyed God. Trust, faith, gives you to strength to follow God boldly. Continue reading “Desperate Faith and God’s Faithfulness”