MInTheGap

I found it interesting to read about a case where disobeying the king
was rewarded.  The Pharoah had ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill
every male child that was born.  When the midwives did not, the Pharoah
asked why not, they told them that it was because the Hebrew women were
having the children before the midwives arrived!  And then the telling
sentence– that God blessed the midwives because they did not kill the
Hebrew males.

It’s also fascinating to think of Moses being taken in by the
princess.  She knew that he was a Hebrew, and that must have infuraited
Pharoah to no end.  No wonder that at the first sign of trouble from
Moses, Pharoah was ready to get rid of him.  One could imagine that if
Moses was an Egyptian, the slaying of another man could have made him
highly exalted.

The other thing that struck me was that
Moses, the deliverer out of Israel, was right there, and the people did
not want him, so he left.  Then there’s the comment “and Israel cried
unto the Lord.”  It’s almost like a movie running in my head– you have
Moses sitting on the side of the hill watching sheep, and the cries of
Israel in the background.  The suspense is there (if you didn’t already
know what was going to happen) and in true “underdog” fashion, God is
going to call this “farmer” to come back and save His people.

What a great God we serve!

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