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TITLE: Decreed Infanticide Turned Into A Blessing | Previous Challenge Entry
By Dale Buchanan
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Jochebed was pregnant and due any day now. During the pregnancy, Miriam had helped her mother take care of her younger brother, Aaron.
Miriam was only seven years old but was a good listener and had heard much of the talk around their town. She understood that the Egyptians were angry over the population explosion of the Hebrew people and were afraid that the Hebrews would take over their country.
Her forehead wrinkled, and she clenched her teeth as she thought about the problem. “Momma, what are we going to do?
Her mom answered, “We’ll wait to see if the baby is a boy. Your father and I have a plan if it is a boy. God has shown us what to do.”
The baby boy arrived. The midwife who helped deliver the baby agreed with Amram and Jochebed’s plan. She assisted them in hiding the baby for three months. The whole family worked together to keep the baby hidden.
At the end of three months, they could no longer hide the baby. Jochebed made an ark of bulrushes plastered with pitch and bitumen. Then she put the baby in the ark and placed the ark in the river among the reeds near the place where Pharoah’s daughter came to wash herself.
Miriam hid and watched from a distance to see what would happen. Her body trembled as she thought about all the bad things that could happen. Yet her eyes sparkled and danced when she thought about God rescuing them from this awful dilemma.
If this was God’s plan, what was God going to do? Jumbled thoughts and questions piled up in her mind. Who would find the baby? Would they kill him? Would her family be arrested and killed? Would someone come along who would love the baby and have the authority to keep a boy child? She prayed that the God of Israel would protect the baby and their family.
Suddenly a small group of women appeared. The princess, with an entourage of maidens, was coming to wash. She dressed not in the more elegant bead-net dress used for formal occasions but in a straight, full-length, sheath dress. Her dress was distinguished from the commoners’ dress by the delicate, transparent, decorated linen. As Miriam watched, she found it difficult to remain still and hidden.
The princess spotted the ark and asked one of her maids to get it. When they looked in the ark, the baby cried. The princess saw the beautiful but helpless infant and started to weep. She gently lifted the child into her arms. With a heart of compassion, she knew she wanted to keep this Hebrew baby boy.
Miriam sensed her opportunity as God directed her. She stepped out of hiding to speak to the princess. “Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?” (Exodus 2:7). The princess answered, “Go.”
When Miriam brought her mother, the princess said, “Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you wages.” (Exodus 2:9). Jochebed took her own baby child and nursed it. God had not only protected her baby boy, but she was also earning wages for his care.
The princess named the child Moses and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:10)
Miriam breathed a massive sigh of relief. Her baby brother Moses was not only safe. He would be protected and cared for as the son of Pharoah’s daughter.
God had changed the wicked charge of Pharoah into a blessing!
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Nicely done
Blessings~