TUESDAY- 8TH AUGUST, 2023
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
BECAUSE I DREW HIM OUT OF THE WATER
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".
Generally and irrespective of race, ethnicity or language, one major influecing way of naming children is through the circumstance (s) that surround their births. Circumstances that surround birth may be pre-birth, at birth or post birth experiences. All these could shape what name a child would be called. You're familiar with the name Jabez. The mother named him so because of the much pangs she experienced at his birth (I Chro. 4:9). You've heard of Benoni. Rachael named the Benjamin you know so because of similar reason (Gen.35:17-18). It seems birth experiences for these two women were so overwhelming and killing. Over and over again, experiences tend to influece parents in naming their children.
Some would say, "I got a good job like my soul desired when he was born and so I named her Joy". That's an experience shaping what sort of name we call, impose and confer on a child. For Moses, it wasn't different. Moses was at the Nile as a baby because of the king's hostile command that says the Hebrew males must not live. He has been catered for just for three months but that couldn't be done further. On that note, the parents had to reluctantly cast him out but trusting that God's hands would bear him up.
As it fits the God of miracles to do, Pharaoh's daughter appears to bathe at the Nile. She rescues the basket in which Moses was coached. This is how Moses was saved and drew out of the water. It is this that influeced his naming. So, when Moses' mother and nurse finally presents him to this princess, she names him "Moses" and alludes to why she's doing that. She said, "because I drew him out of the water". Drawn out of the water means Moses could have died by the same water someway somehow but prompt rescue came for him while at/on the Nile. It is this salvation that the Lord gave to Moses that became the programming and coding from which his name was woven and declared. That's an experience. It won't be difficult for Moses to trace his background or some situations around his birth. As he grows and he learns the meaning of Moses - his name, he ought ask why it was the name Moses he was given and not another. He should ask, "did I have to do with the water? Who rescued me from the water? Why was I at the water?" It is this that'll start a cycle of interaction that'll become an eye opener to the fact that he was only an adopted child; not an Egyptian but a Hebrew. This would make him see God as the miracle worker and sparer of his life who disallowed him from having the experience of many children. It'll also allow him see the Egyptians as the oppressor they are who care less for other people and their welfare.
We do know that Moses finally esteemed the reproach of Christ above the treasures of Egypt but we have no insight into the very act that could have prompted him into discarding his adopted ancestry (to the throne) and sticking with the Hebrews in their servitude. Here's it.
Hebrews 11:24-26, KJV
"24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward".
Only a reason stands. "Moses when he was come of age refused to be called Pharaoh's daughter". He might have discovered something about his birth experience, proper ethnicity and ancestry. That informs why Moses had to identify and sympathize with the Hebrews even by going the extent of killing an Egyptian - an oppressor.
All in all, your name is a coding or a capsule that houses an experience (s) that has happened or which your parents desire would be prophecy finding fulfilment on you in this life. I pray for you, you'll live out your good names. I terminate and cut from the root the springing and reaping originating from a wrong name you've been called. Those of you drawn out of water (thereby given a chance to live) won't find yourself in such terrible and difficult situations again. The salvation and escape God gave to you at birth will be extended salvation to you all the days of your life. And I declare that God shall be present help to those who need urgent help and are asking to be drawn out of their many waters or the miry clay. Whereever you have tried without progress, the Lord's mighty hand shall draw you out. Today, you have the Moses' experience. You're drawn out of many water (Psalm 18:16) and that's because God will send a rescue party from above. In any encounter or difficulty, you'll be drawn out of it unhurt. Escape is your testimony.
PRAYER: Lord, I am named by Your name. I have been adopted into Your ancestry. My lot and my portion is good. I only manifest good experiences in Jesus' name. My name is an encoding and capsule carrying favour and remembrance before heaven and men.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Ezra 7:1-8:20; 1 Corinthians 4:1-21; Psalm 30:1-12; Proverbs 20:28-30
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