Helpful Advice from the Mother of Moses

Recently I was thinking about my grandchildren and great-grandchildren going to school and their godless influences. We have them all ages, kindergarten, elementary, high school, and college. The story of baby Moses kept coming to my mind from Exodus chapter 2. This week I want to share some of my thoughts with you.

At the time Moses was born, Pharaoh was killing all the Hebrew children.  When Moses was three months old, she hid him by making a basket, coated it with tar and pitch. His mother placed the child in it and then put him in the river among the reeds with his sister standing nearby watching him. Pharaoh’s daughter saw him as she was walking near the riverbank and sent her slave girl to get him. When she opens the basket seeing he was a Hebrew baby crying and felt sorry for the child. Then the baby’s sister told Pharaoh’s daughter she knew a Hebrew woman who could nurse and care for the baby for her. Pharaoh’s daughter asked the girl to get the woman. When she arrived, Pharaoh’s daughter asked her to nurse the baby, and she would pay for her service.

When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter, she adopted the child and named him Moses.  

It amazes me how God orchestrated this whole story. 

•    Think of the risk that Moses’ mother took hiding him for three months. 

•    The danger of putting him in the basket in the river knowing he would be killed if he were found. 

•    Knowing her time teaching him about God was short since she would have to release the child to Pharaoh’s daughter.

Our grandchildren are at risk of living in our post-Christian, troubled, unstable environment of racism, violence, hate, transgender influence, etc. It’s a scary place, where we fear our grandchildren and their parents could drown.

Just as Moses’s mother risked his life by placing baby Moses in the river, there are times in the lives of our children and grandparents when we have to put them in the basket in the water. We have to let go, ask God to protect them physically, emotionally, and spiritually and trust that He will do that.  The world can be a scary place – a place where we fear our grandchildren could drown. We must let go and allow God to draw them from the waters to fulfill His purpose for their lives. God has loaned our children and our grandchildren for us to teach them to love Him and serve Him; they were his first.

That’s why it is urgent for grandparents to intentionally pray for physical, emotional, and spiritual protection for our grandchildren.   

Prayer

Dear Lord, I pray my grandchildren will:Guard their hearts.Desire to do their very best. Respect their teachers. Choose friends who will have a positive influence. Recognize the deception of worldly thinking.Have eyes blinded to the temptations they face.Have a balanced view of their beauty, charm, and strength.Learn to be responsible for their actions and behavior. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.