Scripture: Exodus 2:1-3
Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.
Thought for the Day: Throughout history, some of the great hero stories began just as this one does. This is the story of Moses who would become a hero of the Jewish faith. The idea of an infant who was miraculously delivered stretches as far back as 3000 BC when the Mesopotamian King, Sargon the Great, had an almost identical story told of him. Even the story of Jesus told in Matthew’s Gospel portrays the holy family’s narrow escape to Egypt when Herod was threatening violence. In a sense, each of these early years of life become a lens through which the entire life story can be told. When hope appears to have been lost, little acts of redemption and deliverance become a foretelling of what’s to come. These stories are a hint of what will later happen on a large scale.
Prayer: May your redemptive work in my life, O Loving God, be the model by which warring groups, races and nations find healing and deliverance. Amen.
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