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DREW OUT OF THE WATER - Your Baby Series 003
Exodus 2:10, KJV
"And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water."
Why would a mother choose a name, "drew out of the water" for her child? Experiences have been regarded as one of the factors that necessitates what name a child bears. Moses is no exception of this. He is a survivor of water that could have drowned him. Looking back therefore, Pharaoh's daughter (his new parent) who knows his background found no other suitable name to call him but, "drew out of the water". This name alludes to God's salvation wrought on Moses. The Bible says in Psalm 91:16, "with long life will I satisfy you and show you my salvation." Salvation means deliverance, rescue or escape in this context.
When she was revealing to our news correspondents why she named the child presented to her "Moses", she said, "because I drew him out of the water!"
Let us be men full of understanding. In essence, this dark or black Egyptian (African) woman is saying, "I can't forget how he was saved. He could have died. He was a baby meant to die but at a turning, he was saved." Reminiscing over Moses' miraculous deliverance, this young chap got the name, "drew out of the water."
First, this name is full of appreciation and past remembrance. It's to call Moses himself to the awareness of his special destiny as one in debt to God almighty (who had saved him). Moses was just a baby when the event happened. He wouldn't know if he wasn't told. However, this remembrance of God's salvation (coded in his name) would lead him to enquire why he was named, "drew out of the water." Knowing he was drew out of the water, he himself can't but come to gratitude and be full of sensitivity to the fact that God has a use or purpose for him later on in his life. His school mates who don't know better might call him, "waterboy" but the correct interpretation of the event that could have claimed his life would lead him to self estimation and identity. Moses can't but find himself therefore! He won't be a lost soul like others who couldn't find themselves because they couldn't see an uncommon thing or uniqueness that speaks volumes about their non-ordinariness. That experience which reveals God's interest in him from babyhood would lead him to seek that for which God saved him from drowning.
This story of Moses tells of the many dangers that babies can be exposed to for which we have a sure promise that they'll all be saved from them with none of their bones ever breaking.
God's salvation or deliverance is sure over your baby. Even in the water, on land or in the air, He'll go all out for them. Your baby is the "drew out of the Lord" whenever the messes of life come with high hopes of messing them up. The testimony will be, "the event came but God's grace saved them." They can't be shamed. They'll rather be "drew [rescued]" out of danger. Escape and deliverance will locate them and that right early.
PRAYER: Lord, let your potent protection and shield like a rainbow in the sky and a tent cover my kid(s).
1-YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN
Acts 16:16-40 & Job 1-2
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