Month: September 2025

Exodus 2:13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”

Did Moses wish he had acted a different way in verse 12? Did he know, almost instantly, that what he did wasn’t the right thing? Was he eaten up with guilt over his actions? Did he judge himself? Berate himself?

Exodus 2:14 The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

What do you do when you know, almost instantly, that your decision was a poor one? When you would give almost anything to be able to rewind the clock just a little bit, but that’s not possible? What if it is earth shattering? What if it’s just a silly little thing, nothing big in the grand scheme of things, but you can’t let it go?

Exodus 2:15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

Precious Savior, Some poor decisions leave craters in life while some barely make a dent. Some who make poor decisions are eaten up with guilt and regret while some don’t feel a thing. The reality is that once decisions have been made–good or bad, big or small, they are done. Help us to learn when we need to, to course correct when we should, to not beat ourselves up about things we cannot change. Help us to love ourselves and each other as You love us–fiercely and completely. Amen.

Exodus 2:16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Have a blessed day. I love you.

Exodus 2:9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.

I wonder what Moses was thinking in these verses. He clearly doesn’t feel like he fits with the Egyptians because of his actions on verse 12. But verse 13 will show that he also doesn’t fit with the Israelites, they don’t claim him.

Exodus 2:10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

I have spent a lot of my life feeling like I don’t fit, I don’t belong, I’m on the outside. How much of that is fact and how much is just my interpretation is up for debate, but the heart that I developed for those who are struggling, who feel they don’t fit, is very real.

Exodus 2:11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Lord of the Misfits, Thank You for the rock solid knowledge that I am Yours, that I am loved deeply, fiercely, completely. Thank You for the heart You have given me for those who don’t feel like they fit. Help me to be Your hands and feet and heart. Help me to show them Your deep love. Always. Amen.

Exodus 2:12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Have a blessed day. 

Exodus 2:1 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 

I cannot imagine what this woman is going through. Loving and hiding her child for three months. Then loving him enough and trusting God enough to put him in a papyrus basket lined with pitch and float him down the Nile.

Exodus 2:2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 

Though isn’t that what we are all tasked to do? Raise our babies (literal, metaphorical, educational babies) as best we can and then trust their futures into God’s hands? As a mama and a teacher and a nurturer from way back, that letting go part is HARD, at least for me.

Exodus 2:3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 

God of nurturers, Thank You that You love our children (literal, metaphorical, educational children) more than we are even capable of loving. I know how very much I love my boys. It is almost inconceivable to think that more love exists than is in my heart for them, yet I know You love each of us fiercely, deeply, completely. Thank You. Help us to trust their futures to You. Always. Amen.

Exodus 2:4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

Have a blessed day.

Exodus 1:19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”

I have always been a rule follower. I have always had faith that rules exist for a reason, even if I don’t fully understand the why. I have always tried to trust the rule makers, those in charge–that they have everyone’s best interest at heart, that the rules are important, necessary, for the whole to run smoothly.

Exodus 1:20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 

I have always been a rule follower, so this line of commentary gave me pause: [God] “won His victory through some courageous individuals who were willing to stand up to the power of Pharaoh and do what was right.” They did not follow the rules. They followed their hearts, God’s heart.

Exodus 1:21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

Precious Savior, Sometimes those making the rules do not have the good of all in their hearts. Sometimes they do not love You and love others. Instead, they love themselves, power, money, fame, etc, etc. I love You, Lord. I want to love like You love, fiercely, deeply, completely. Help me, always, to do what’s right in Your eyes and not the eyes of the world. Help me to love You and love others, always. Amen.

Exodus 1:22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

Have a blessed day.

Exodus 1:8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 

Joseph ended up in Egypt because of his brothers’ treachery, but Egypt was exactly where the Israelites needed to be in order to grow into a powerful nation. If they had stayed in Canaan, they would have intermarried, and their faith would have been diluted.

Exodus 1:9-10 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”

For centuries, that worked well for all involved, but now there is a new Pharaoh, one who has no knowledge of Joseph, one who is concerned about the number of Israelites in Egypt. However, even with oppression and forced labor, the Israelites continue to grow as a nation.

Exodus 1:11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 

Lord of the searching, Thank You that there are sources of commentary to help me understand what I read, to help me think about what I believe to be true. Thank You for this example in Exodus of growth, even when times are tough. Help me, with every word, to draw closer to You, to understand You a little better, to love and trust You even more. Help me, Jesus. Amen.

Exodus 1:12-13 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly.

Have a blessed day.