A Baby. A Basket. A River. A Deliverer. Only GOD.

God will never stop being awesome. 

It's very difficult to comprehend His greatness and His goodness. He is eternal and infinite. Like the pounding water of Niagara Falls, His heart beats and gushes unconditional love for His children.

He knows when we suffer. He knows why we're hurting. He sees us when we're fearful and filled with anxiety. He makes it possible for us to overcome evil with good. He sees us as we celebrate His lovingkindness toward us, too! And just think, our worship of Him is music to His ears--"He is enthroned on our praises" (Psalm 22:3). Whoohoo! So yes, He is awesome!

As His children in this broken world we desperately need Him to keep showing us His magnificent love and power! And if we will draw near to Him we will see He is constantly working to accomplish His purposes -- for His glory and our good.

Are we amazed at God?  Are we in awe and wonder of His love and greatness? In all our pain, in our struggles against sin, and the temptations to worship the idols of our present culture, do we cry out to God for comfort, love, relief, deliverance, healing,forgiveness, mercy, and salvation? He's there ready to listen because "the LORD is near. Do not be anxious about anything..." (Philippians 4:4).

Look what He did when things looked so hopeless for His people as mistreated slaves exiled in Egypt. God's people suffered for generations under the wicked rule of Pharaoh. 

But God had a sovereign plan already in place and the truth is, "There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the LORD" (Proverbs 21:30). That's security for us, by the way! But God heard the cries for deliverance and kept the promises He made centuries before, that He made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to bring His people out of the Egyptian bondage. He promised they would be delivered and led to the promised land. "The LORD is faithful in all He does" (Psalm 145:17).

In Exodus 2 we can read for ourselves the astonishing power of God and love for His people! God ordained specific details to carry His children all the way through horrible circumstances that seemed insurmountable.  

As the Pharaoh's oppression increased, God had orchestrated the Israelites would increase with more and more babies. Since their numbers were increasing exponentially Pharaoh was angrily freaking out [my dramatic interpretation] for fear of being overtaken by them! So Pharaoh ruled for all male Hebrew babies be killed.

God's merciful plan for deliverance began with a specific baby boy who was born to Hebrew slaves in captivity. This chosen family was of the tribe of Levi. The baby's loving mother wanted to keep him from being killed so she placed him in a basket that could float on the Nile River. The baby's big sister watched to see who would rescue the baby in the basket. Who was it? Um, Pharaoh's daughter! Yep!  

Then the baby's sister asked Pharaoh's daughter if she wanted her to get a nursing mother for the baby. And of course, God had predestined the baby's birth mother to nurse him! Only God! It could have turned out differently here, if Pharaoh's daughter wouldn't allow her to get a nursing mother.

Pharaoh's daughter named the baby Moses because she "drew him out of the water"  (Exodus 2:10).He was trained and educated as an Egyptian prince, learning all kinds of skills.

But one day Moses saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew and impulsively Moses killed and buried the Egyptian. He had an eye witness of the murder and had to flee from a furious Pharaoh who realized Moses was a member of a Hebrew slave family.

After spending years in the wilderness school of obedience, which was God's plan to teach him to keep His eyes on God alone, Moses was approached by God in a burning bush. God was ready to send Moses out to serve His people. "I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey...so now I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt." (Exodus 3:7-8,10).

And Moses, by the grace and power of God, led the people out of Egypt. Look at all the obstacles and hindrances that had to be overcome! But God wove it all together to answer the prayers of His people, to restore them, and bless them abundantly again! 

What does this Bible story mean for us? It means just as He was with Moses, God can move mountains of hindrances and weave a tapestry of people, places, and things to work together on our behalf, too! 

God will never stop being awesome. But we have to believe it. By faith.

Polly💖
Matthew 5:16