MOSES’ father and mother were Hebrews and lived in Egypt, and the king of Egypt, Pharaoh, had said that all the baby boys that belonged to the Hebrews were to be cast into the river.
God’s eye was upon this baby, Moses, for He was going to make him a great man when he was grown up, so God was caring for him.
The parents of Moses had faith that God would protect him, so they hid their baby boy for three months, then his mother did a very, strange thing.
She took an ark or basket of bulrushes and covered it with pitch so no water could get in, and she put the child in it and laid it among the flags by the side of the river.
One day the king’s daughter came along and found the baby and wanted it for her own.
He grew up to be a man in Pharaoh’s court, and could have been the greatest man in the country next to the king, but he knew he was one of God’s people, and had faith in God, and refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose rather to suffer affliction with rue people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
He had his eyes fixed on eternal realities, and he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt.
ML 06/06/1937