SATURDAY - 10TH MAY, 2025
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola ADEJUMO
SURRENDERED TO GOD
Exodus 2:3, KJV
"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."
Mothers are especially close to their children. It may be because of those months relationship that existed in the womb or because of their tender care to them. Irrespective of what the reasons are, they are close and because they are, they smell their children's destinies easily.
In Exodus 2:2, Moses' mother saw that he was special. He perceived some extraordinary things about the newborn baby. How many of you are so spiritually sensitive that you can mark an extraordinary child, even when a baby? Even when Moses hasn't uttered a speech, manifested a skill or displayed a gift, the mother could still sense him. She could see that this is a special baby. It is this specialness that she didn't want to lose. It is this she wanted to preserve. She knew that special babies have special destinies to fulfill. So, she goes on the risky journey.
Exodus 2:2, KJV
"...and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months."
Do remember that her hiding Moses is against the earlier proclamation of Pharaoh who had ordered that "every son that is born of the Hebrews, you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live" (Exo.1:22, ESV). That's when you can understand the context that made Moses' mother hid him. He had to lest Moses was discovered and thrown in the Nile to perish.
However, her strength and how far she could weave her wisdom ended in three months. In three months time, baby Moses has started babbling and if he were to cry now, it'll be easily heard and increasingly known. So, the cover has been blown. If Moses would continue, he needs a new hiding place.
What I don't know is who instructed Moses' mother to take a basket and set Moses on the Nile. It is no wisdom to think Moses would survive the Nile when Pharaoh had declared that every born male should be thrown into the Nile. Who could have instructed her to take that wisdom of weaving a basket, water-proofing it and setting it on the Nile? Did Moses' mother anticipate that Moses would fall into a good hand? Or what was her thought? Her thought probably was that the floatable basket would float away far from Egypt and be rescued by any kindhearted person. We can only theorize or guess what her reasons were. However, one thing seems certain to me. God might have inspired her or given her the intuition to do so without necessarily letting her know He (the Almighty) will be waiting to collect and retrieve Moses at the Nile. The Nile that could have been the agent of Moses' death was what he was saved through when Pharaoh's daughter contacted him and adopted him.
The moral of the story is this. After you might have exercised yourself and you have come to your wit's end, God sure has His own role or responsibility to play as well. Don't err. Be on the side of action. God will meet you on the way. And as we vividly read in Moses' story, He doesn't disappoint. When Moses' mother set that basket in the Nile, it was with much weeping, prayer and hope. She must have said, "may you find the next shore." How's it that the basket coincidentally meets with Pharaoh's daughter at the Nile? She has come to bathe but would you convince me that there are no bathing tubs, even pools in the palace? Obviously, all those were at home but God had to stir her up as the perfect hands into which Moses' could fall and from which he will be protected from the law.
When you have tried your best and it still remains a mile to completion, may God bring His own ministration that can compensate for your labour not being vain. For any one trusting that God will step in and into what they have started in faith, today is your day. You shall not be left alone. God will visit you and give you that needed miracle or breakthrough. As Moses was set in the Nile, he wasn't falling on/into the water. He rather fell into God's hands. You too, you'll fall into God's hands and at all times. You'll know God's intervention, rescue and on spot ministrations.
PRAYER: God, I commit to you. Appear and be my present help in trouble.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 22:1-23:20, 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12, Psalm 83:1-18, Proverbs 25:11-14
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