Hope for the Hurting: For the Hurting: Encouragement for Suffering Seasonsنموونە

It’s excruciating to watch those we love suffer and feel powerless to help. I can’t fathom how Moses’ mother must’ve felt when the heartless Pharaoh demanded that the Egyptians throw all Hebrew boys into the Nile River. This meant her newborn baby boy was in danger.

Likely hoping and praying for a miracle, she hid him for as long as she dared. When she could no longer do so, she placed her precious baby inside a waterproof basket and set him in the Nile River.

Where crocodiles lived.

Did she leave in despair, or linger, watching, in hope-filled prayer? Scripture doesn’t tell us. It does, however, describe Moses's miraculous rescue from the Pharaoh’s own daughter!

The moment when all seemed lost was an instrumental step in God’s liberation plan.

Moved with compassion, the princess brought Moses into the palace and raised him as a prince. God used her to help grow Moses into the man who led God’s people out of slavery and helped them become the nation of Israel.

This story reminds us that we don’t have to understand where God’s taking us. Many times, we won’t. But we can always trust the power, purposes and heart of the One doing the leading.

~Warmly, Jennifer Slattery