Exodus 2 - Weavings of God

As we enter Exodus 2, we see conditions for the Israelites are oppressive - virtually intolerable. Pharaoh is executing the Hebrew babies at the time of Moses birth, but God plans to raise up a deliverer to demonstrate God's power to the unbelievers and his love for his people. 

Our Heavenly Father doesn't weave his story the way we would. He allows the injustice to continue even though He is fully able to wipe out the oppressors and to relieve the suffering. He doesn't operate that way. 

He allows Moses to go undiscovered for a time and allows Pharaoh's daughter to find him and raise him. He allows his own mother to nurse him and see him grow. He allows Moses to grow up in the palace and learn the ways of the Egyptians in spite of Pharaoh's hatred for the people. 

God allowed Moses to be discovered as the murderer of an Egyptian and prepared a place for Moses to learn the ways of a shepherd in Midian. God brought him to the home of his wife and gave him a son. All the time God allowed his people to continue in slavery. 

To the human eye these individual events would seem chaotic without a master plan, but God was weaving a story together using each and every event to lead up to a master plan to deliver his people. 

At first blush, this would seem to be a story of Moses or the story of oppression in Egypt, but at the end of the chapter, God reveals the real intended focus. It is Gods  story of deliverance unfolding. In verse 25 we see "So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them. For 400 years they were exiled to this foreign land but God never forgot them. 

My dear friend if you have chaos going on in your life. If the strife, oppression and pain is too much to bear, consider this:  God is concerned for his people. He sees the injustices and he sees your need and is weaving even the hardships and trials into a grand story of God's glory and his lovingkindness toward his own. We may not see what is next around the corner or how God may be at work, but the Master does. We can trust the hand of our Father in Heaven to weave together his story using the circumstances we face. 

Are you in need today?  Do as the Israelites did in their captivity in Egypt - cry out to God (Ex 2:23) and ask Him to help you.  He is the same God who overcame the oppressors in Egypt and He still cares for his own.   Whether you are in financial need, health need or in need of wisdom he is Master of it all and he cares for you.  

May God richly bless you as you seek Him and as you serve Him!