Wednesday, 08 April 2009
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April flurries bring May.... ??
There was a itty, bitty, mini snow flurry in town yesterday.
I've heard that April showers bring May flowers... but what do April flurries bring??
My prayer: Lord, I am praying for strength to let go of the things that belong to You. That you will help me to do this too... because I cannot do it in my own strength. And all that I have belongs to you. Please help me, Father.
Relating to the Bible...
God keeps bringing to mind the story of Moses out of Exodus 1:15 - 2:10...
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The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, "When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live." The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?" The midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive." So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own. Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."
Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said. Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?" "Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, "I drew him out of the water."
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I have reflected on and questioned the thoughts and feelings that his mother must have gone through. If she held on to him and kept him - he would have been killed. And she had to stay were she was. And how much hope she had to have in order to place him in a basket in the Nile.
- Did God simply put it in the heart of the mother to place him in the basket to fulfill His ultimate purpose?
- Did she do this out of great faith - and did God then honor her because of this?
- Can you even remotely imagine all that she hoped nd prayed for through this?
- Did God give her peace and patience through this time?
- Could I possibly trust God in such a way to keep my child safe while in the hands of the enemy?
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- I love how what was intended for evil brought about much good and glory to God.
- Matthew Henry's Commentary says this: "the parents of Moses hid him by faith; some think they had a special revelation to them that the deliverer should spring from their loins; however they had the general promise of Israel’s preservation, which they acted faith upon, and in that faith hid their child, not being afraid of the penalty annexed to the king’s commandment. Note, Faith in God’s promise is so far from superseding that it rather excites and quickens to the use of lawful means for the obtaining of mercy. Duty is ours, events are God’s. Again, Faith in God will set us above the ensnaring fear of man." ... and ... "Note, 1. God takes special care of the outcasts of Israel (Ps. 147:2); they are his outcasts, Isa. 16:4."
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* sigh *
Lord, help me... please.
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