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A SPECIAL BABY DESERVES A VIGILANT CARE - Your Baby Series 001
Exodus 2:2-3, KJV
"2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 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."
For some days, I'll be speaking on destiny or calling or the life's work of your baby or child. I want to show you God has ordained that your baby (either in the womb or on your knees now) be ordered in some ways. Before then however, I might need to introduce to you parents' jealousy over their wards.
A man of the house of Levi went and found to marry a daughter of the house of Levi. This union produces Moses, God's prophet. Only for Moses to be birthed at a time Hebrew children are being killed. When he was born, his mother couldn't let go because she could see that Moses was a special child. Specific disclosures on what makes Moses special aren't categorically given. One may dangle whether it is physical tangibility or just the smelling of the unusuality of Moses' destiny. However, it could have been both as well. If we should consult some other Bible versions, you'll hear all these said about Moses.
"...She saw that he was a special baby and kept him hidden three months" (NLT).
"When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months" (NIV).
"She saw there was something special about him and hid him" (The MSG).
In all these translations, we contact Moses' uniqueness in varying language descriptions. Either something physical or just the sensing of his destiny; Moses' mother sees right. What God wants her to see in her child is what she saw. As such, she leaves the category of parents who don't see any uniqueness or attached value in their kid. This ability to see and identify correctly what her child carries now leads to the special cherishing of Moses. How?
We read that she refused to yield Moses up when she could have done so earlier. Despite Pharaoh's command, she dared to risk her own life for Moses.
Hebrews 11:23, KJV
"By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment."
She must have secretly believed that God would revoke the king's commandment within the time of hiding Moses. Though nothing came the way she expected change, yet God took another way to spare Moses' life.
What am I saying? When you observe and measure certainly that your baby is not ordinary, you want to pay closer and stronger attention to him. Since we give our time and valuables to protect what is dear to us, you'll as well see to it that your special children in every way possible have the best that God ordains for them and the best you can give. It is this that'll lead you to preserve them for their destiny, calling or life's work. When Moses' mother hid him, she did because of the special destiny that's ahead of Moses that she could perceive. I'll theorize assuredly now that what she saw must have transcended physical handsomeness of Moses. Don't forget that this mother of Moses is from the tribe of Levi and a Hebrew woman. There must have been certain things that her training and special knowledge of God must have availed her on Moses. Due to that, she becomes more jealous for him. She wouldn't give him up and when she eventually does because circumstances mandated her, she did all her best to ensure Moses' safety. She takes a special cover and house for Moses. She had to daub it with slime and pitch so that water will not penetrate it and as that ark or cot was released, she commits Moses to God's care in tears. Indeed, God proves worthy. He appears to draw Moses out of the water. It's from this experience Moses got his name meaning "drew out of the water" (Exo.2:10).
As we journey on this new series, parents and sponsors should pay attention. God is saying, "one major reason why parents will give their best to the human spirit He has sent to them (now in human flesh) is having a revelation of that gift as no ordinary one. A baby is not common though common. If you have it, it is a gift from God and He wants you to exercise special jealousy over them like Moses' mother does. This jealousy categorically should be in protecting them from distractions so they can fulfill their destiny as ordained for them by God and as it might have been consequently revealed to you - the parents (just as Moses' mother smelt his destiny).
I pray that you won't trivialize with what makes your child special as to jettison it or the training that can groom him for pseudo ones. May you rather cling to the specialness of your child and with all your strength preserve and raise him to discharging just that.
PRAYER: Father of all spirits, open my eyes to see and smell the destiny (uniqueness) of my kid(s) and preserve them for same.
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Acts 15:22-35 & Esther 5-7
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