Vs. 2: “The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.”
I recently heard a Jewish Rabbi teach on this verse. In the Hebrew language, the word “fine” (in the ESV, other versions may use a different word) is Tov, which means good. But it has such a deeper meaning than simply “good”. It’s a word that means something is directly related to the will of God.
In a time when Pharoah was set on exterminating the male Hebrew babies, Moses’ mother looked at her newborn son and knew that he was born as a result of God’s will. This boy who should have been killed as soon as he was born, was not only kept alive, but raised in the house of Pharoah himself! And this same boy would one day be the man God would use to destroy Pharaoh and his army, and deliver an entire nation of people from captivity.
We next see Moses as a grown man, and his destiny comes into view:
When the Egyptian was beating the Hebrew – Moses stepped in.
When two Hebrews were going at it with each other – Moses stepped in.
When the shepherds were harassing the daughters of Midian – Moses stepped in.
Moses was made for rescue. God’s use of Moses to deliver his people, which we will be reading about soon, was not a random choice. He was formed in his mother’s womb to be a rescuer.
God is intentional in the way He forms us, and the purpose He puts in us.
Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Moses’ mother, Jochabed, knew that his birth was God’s will. And Hebrews 11 tells us that it was by the faith of his parents that Moses was hidden from Pharaoh, and that they were not afraid of the Egyptian king’s command.
So here’s what I want to ponder today – do we see the importance of destiny, and how the enemy will attempt to thwart it? This is why we must be people who will stand in the gap for the destinies of the next generation. Our children, their children, those in our churches who are stepping in to take the baton from our generation… they have destinies on them that the enemy wants to kill. I believe Moses’ mother saw it, and followed the leading of the Spirit of God in hiding him, and then in putting him into a basket in the river. She allowed him to be rescued by the very people who wanted him dead, because she trusted the will of God. This was her intercession for the destiny of her son, and it provokes me.
What will be my intercession for the destiny of the next generation?
Karla Jo Wasion 