NO HUMAN POLICY CAN HINDER GOD’S PLAN

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Today’s Reading:

Exodus 2:1-15a

“And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So, the woman took the child and nursed him.” (v. 9)

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As a pastor, I have shared in the joy of many births with families from varied financial and cultural backgrounds. The common thread in all those occasions was joy and hope that the baby would become a well-adjusted and happy adult. Social status and finances often shaped some expectations. Can you identify with parents whose newborn son was marked for death by government policy? Can you imagine that son would not only survive but grow up in the palace of a king, commit murder, and end up in a nowhere wilderness exile? Every life is a saga of sorts, so forget birth order, luck, and soothsayers, and understand there could be more to life but only the plan of God is unfailing, and nothing can hinder it. Moses was born in the worst of times.

The purpose of the genocide of the Israelite babies was to destroy the nation of Israel contrary to the plan of God. But for those who were perceptive to the prophecies that Israel would eventually come out of their captivity in order to receive the land promised to Abraham, they knew that the end of the captivity was near but failed to predict the actual time. Neither did they know that they would be condemned for forty years of wandering in the wilderness before coming to the Promised Land. It was the faith of the parents of Moses that led to his preservation. A mother who trusted in the providential care of God placed the basket where it would be discovered by Pharaoh’s daughter while she also placed Miriam where she would be discovered and thus possibly asked where to find a nursing mother. Moses, at his age, knew the difference between Egyptians and Hebrews. He knew who he was and the moral principle that all men are created equal in the eyes of God. Moses’ killing of the Egyptian was an intention to deliver the Hebrew from the Egyptian with a strong feeling concerning equality of all men. He acted on his own without sanction thinking that his deed will be without the knowledge of others. God’s plan usually comes to pass in His own timing. It is evident that God’s deliverance time was not ripe. The Hebrew fellow did not support Moses’ method and time of deliverance and even the nation as a whole did not feel the need at that time for their own deliverance from Egypt. Moses fled because of his security for attempting to deliver the Hebrews before God’s appointed time.

Beloved, we need to key to God’s timing for our breakthroughs and even solutions to our problems. We need not be in hurry for the fulfilment of God’s plan for our lives. God’s time is the best. He is the same every time. What we need to do is to only trust Him and submit to His own timing. He is the everlasting God who will do what He promised in His own time and when we will appreciate it more and even enjoy His goodness and faithfulness more.

OYEYEMI GABRIEAL

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Prayer:

1. Father, help me not to be in a hurry concerning your promises for my life, in Jesus name.

2. Father, help me key into your time and plan for my life, in Jesus name.

3. Father, increase our faith to always trust you, no matter the situation we are passing through, in Jesus name.

4. Father, help our nations to rely totally on you for solutions to our problems, in Jesus name.

5. Father, deliver us from these series of challenges that we are facing as a nation, in Jesus name.