Creative obedience, compassionate defiance, and courageous steps saves a baby's life!
These are the three truths that God taught me this morning as I reflected on the birth of Moses.
I sure want to be the person that says I recognize that your life matters! You matter! No matter how small you might be, you matter. You are God's gift.
I want to be creatively obedient like Mose's mom. Pharaoh said throw the babies in the Nile. She did, but only after hiding him to grow in strength for three months. She then made him a nice wicker basket boat to keep him afloat and protected from the elements! Talk about creativity!
I want to be compassionately defiant like Pharaoh's daughter. She knew that her dad said, "throw the babies in the Nile", but when she heard the baby cry she had compassion. Not the kind of compassion that just moves the heart but the kind that moves the hand. She provided for the baby by agreeing to a nurse, giving her pay, and then taking the baby to raise as her own.
Not only that, she named him Moses meaning "I drew you out of the water!" This child would grow up hearing every time his name was called that he was delivered from an awful fate because she drew him out. Imagine how that alone plays out in his psyche as he becomes Israel's deliverer that draws them out of their bondage.
I want courageous steps. I want to be so curious that I am willing to see, but not just see, but step forward and do, maybe impulsively, but the right thing like Mose's sister.
Anytime a life is saved physically or even spiritually, I realize it took someone or a group of someone's creative obedience, compassionate defiance, and courageous steps.
Father, please help me to walk in these and thank you for those that have already done this before me!
