Exodus 2:2-3 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
No doubt, parents have fears, and mothers have fears for their children. They fear the lack of success that their children might experience and the harm that could come. They fear the heartbreak that their children might endure. Perhaps they fear that their child isn’t saved. The fears they have, both real and imagined, can all be overcome by trust and faith in God. Moses’s parents had a very real fear. Their fear was played out no doubt before their very eyes. I can only imagine the scenes that took place as other children were found out, killed, and thrown into the river. As Moses was born, his parents determined to hide him in the house for as long as they could to protect him. When she delivered her son, she hid him for three months. When she could no longer hide him, she made an ark of bulrushes, dabbed it with slime and pitch, and put the child in it. She laid it in the flags by the river.
Children are precious. Unfortunately, in the day and age we live in, not everyone shares that view. Too often, children are considered an inconvenience, a career stopper, and the right to end their lives without judgment is lobbied for and demanded. But all children are precious, and their lives matter. The lives of children matter; the lives of the unborn matter. What they will become, we cannot see when they are children, but God knows exactly what they will become and what they can do. The reality is that every child has the potential to be someone who could change the world.
Back in the 1700s, there was a young baby who was born on the island of Nevis in the Caribbean. He was born out of wedlock, orphaned, and unwanted by his parents because he was deemed inconvenient. However, he was adopted by a wealthy merchant and sent to New York City to be educated. He was a bright young man who grew to be a brilliant adult. He became a founding father and helped write the United States Constitution that child was Alexander Hamilton. He was a child who was unwanted, a child who was inconvenient, but he was a child who changed the world and our nation.
Though He was born in difficult times, God had big plans for Moses. God had big plans for him, and no one could imagine what Moses might become, but God knew it, and his parents trusted that God could take care of him.