LORD HAS THE FINAL SAY
Exodus 1, 2

Whatever the enemy has put in place to break you, God is not limited from using it to make you. The Bible records that a new king came to power in Egypt who did not know Joseph. The king not knowing Joseph inculcated inside of him the fear of the growth of the children of Israel’s population. As a result of fear, he devised and passed a law that put the children of Israel under the affliction of taskmasters. What God builds, no man can put it down. Pharaoh’s effort to terminate the growth of the children of Israel by increasing their affliction resulted in their multiplication. The appointed taskmasters’ effort failed and the direction to midwives to kill every male son did not reduce nor deny what God had in plan for the children of Israel. Indeed, God is true to preserve and deliver His own. Are you one of God’s own? How you live the life that He has given you is a determinant to your preservation and deliverance. Pharaoh, having tried what he knew to reduce where God is increasing made a new command, “So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, ‘Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.’” (Exodus 1:22) It was after this new command to terminate the growth of the children of Israel that Moses was born. Despite the wicked agenda of Pharaoh, the birth of Moses was not accidental and it was in due season. Instead of Moses being turned in to the law for execution through drowning in the river as commanded by Pharaoh, his parents chose the same river as his deliverance route. At a certain time after he was born, “…when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.” (Exodus 2:3) It was in the same water that Moses was picked up by the daughter of the chief commander Pharaoh. Evidently, it was God at work that delivered and preserved Moses for his divine assignment. The command to die in the river could not touch Moses in the river. Pharaoh did not only fail to kill Moses but rather passed to raise him up and make him ready for God’s glory. Moses, who was to be dead by water, was saved through the water and the one that passed the law also named him saying, “Because I drawn him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:10) All that the enemy has set to use in breaking you will rather make you. Every hand that has gone out to destroy you will rather deliver you for the glory of God. God alone will always have the final say.

Prayer for today: In every area of my life Father, cause Your will to have its way in my life.