First let me say how excited I am about us finishing our first book together. I hope you got as much out of the book of Genesis as I did. I have found it so helpful to study together and get someone else’s view on the chapters of Genesis.
Today’s passage in Exodus reminded me that what God has planned, no man can destroy. God knows that Moses is the man he wants to use to lead his people out of
I think we have all heard the phrase, “A little hard work never hurt anyone.” The Israelites show that could not be truer. The Pharaoh thinks that he can simply labor them to death and that will stop the nation and God’s plan, but he is mistaken. In fact the Bible says the harder that they were worked, the more they multiplied.
Pharaoh gets more and more cruel as the chapter moves along. He talks to the midwives who help with the birth Israelite children and tells them to kill all the boys that are born. These midwives fear God more than man and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord. I think it is important to point out that God removed them from their position to protect them. They were faithful to God and not to Pharaoh and He saw it fit to give them households of their own.
Pharaoh tried to labor them into submission, then he tries to scare a small group of women into doing a terrible thing, and when that does not work he finally puts the decree into all the Israelite nation that if a son is born he must be thrown into the Nile. As we will see in the coming chapters this plan is unsuccessful as well.
When I look back at this chapter, I want to be like the Hebrew midwives. I want to look whatever is trying to get in the way of God’s plan in the face and tell it to get out of the way...and sometimes that may even mean that I have to tell myself to get out of the way. But I wonder how many times have I been Pharaoh? How many times have I seen what God was doing and wanted to do and tried to stop it? Ask yourself today what God is doing in your midst, and then ask are you being like Pharaoh and putting up walls to slow it down, or are you being like the midwives and jumping on the bandwagon. God will succeed, it is just a question of will we get to be apart of the success or will we look back and say I wish I would have done things differently. My prayer for us at BCCC is to be like the midwives.
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