Moses became Pharaoh's daughter's son by coincidence. Right? No. The fact is, if it hadn't been for his mother disobeying the Pharaoh's order to throw all baby boys into the Nile River, he would have not grown up in Pharaoh's palace.Pharaoh's daughter had been instrumental in saving his life as was his mother. And consequently, she had adopted him as her o own. (It makes me wonder how she pulled that one off as her father was trying to keep the Jewish population from growing?)
The fact remains that....somehow she did.
And more fact than that, God had a divine plan for Moses even then.
Because she had adopted him, Moses was raised with the best of what any prince would have whose father was a Pharoah. He had been instructed in the ways of the Egyptian people, but there came a time when he became concerned about his own people as he watched them as being treated as the slaves they had become.
God called Moses to free them from the grip of slavery because he had seen their suffering. He told Moses, "I am sending you to Pharoah to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."
Moses wasn't too sure about this mission but God had also told him that he would be with him. Still, Moses was not convinced and he seems to argue with God even though God keeps trying to reassure him and shows him different signs that should get his message across to Moses.
Finally, he does what God asks and goes to the Pharoah to tell him to "Let my people go."It took a total of God sending ten plagues on Pharoah to convince him that he must let the Israelite people go before they were indeed freed. Only after the last one, which took the life of Pharaoh's firstborn son, did it occur. God was not putting up with anymore. He had had enough.
God had chosen Moses to do his bidding, even though Moses was sometimes angry and unsure of himself and had excuses for why he could not do as God had been asking. And yet, he was human too and of course, God knew that. This is just a small part of his life as it was. ( His life began in Exodus 2) As he grew from a baby into a man, he had to learn as we all do in life.
Sometimes just like Moses, God asks us to do something and we start making excuses why we can't. We don't have what it takes to accomplish it is what we sometimes tell him and ourselves. But if God is asking something of us, he will provide whatever is needed to accomplish it. It is just like that saying we hear sometimes,
"If God brings me to it, he will bring me through it." He will never ask something of us that we cannot do. But he will help us do whatever it is he knows we can do. What is it he is asking you and me today? What excuses are we giving him? Can we just say to him, "Yes Lord."
April 26, 2019 Promise: I am leaving you with a gift-peace of mind and heart. And the peace is a gift that the world cannot give. So do not be troubled or afraid. John 14:27
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