Exodus Chapter 2: Verses 5-10 (NIV-UK)
Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river-bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. ‘This is one of the Hebrew babies,’ she said.
Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, ‘Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?’
Yes, go,’ she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.’ So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, ‘I drew him out of the water.’
Moses’ mother had to exercise great faith by putting Moses into the river. I’m sure that she hoped someone would find and ultimately care for her son, but I’m also sure she would never imagine that it would be the daughter of the very man who had issued the decree to kill the baby boys.
In her turn, Miriam too, although just a young girl, was bold enough to approach Pharaoh’s daughter and propose a plan that meant that her mother ended up being able to bring up her own son and get paid for it.
When we take a step of faith in obedience to God, we may not know how things are going to work out. But God knows what He is doing and works things out in a way that perhaps we too could never have imagined, and its always the best way. But sometimes we also have to be like Miriam and be bold enough to speak out, under the guidance and anointing of the Holy Spirit. Imagine the opportunity that might have been missed if Miriam had kept quiet and hoped for the best. So if we feel the nudging or prompt of the Holy Spirit to speak out, or speak specifically to someone, we too need to be obedient, because we don’t know what opportunity will be missed if we don’t.
Dear God,
I’m so grateful that You work out all things for our good. Help me to exercise the same level of faith and boldness shown by Miriam and her mother. I ask in Jesus’ Name. Amen.