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.