I read this morning about the Hebrew midwives who saved the Hebrew male babies. Pharaoh had ordered the males be killed at birth. He was afraid their number would grow in strength so that the Egyptians would be overtaken.

Wow. Killed at birth. That’s huge. Now those midwives saved those babies.

You read in the next chapter that Moses was a Hebrew baby. Moses was chosen by God to lead the people out of captivity.

What if those midwives would’ve said “we know what’s right, but we have to do what we’re told.”? It’s really tough sometimes to do what’s right, when wrong is staring you in the face in the form of an influential person. But, like we read a few weeks back in church Daniel 3 16-18 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered King Nebuchadnezzar, “Your threat means nothing to us. If you throw us in the fire, the God we serve can rescue us from your roaring furnace and anything else you might cook up, O king. But even if he doesn’t, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference, O king. We still wouldn’t serve your gods or worship the gold statue you set up.”
Many of us love God, but few of us draw a line in the sand. So Satan wins the battle. Not the war, but the battle. We’re frozen. We’re stuck. We don’t trust God enough that no matter what, no matter what happens, He in His perfect way will take of us.

Can you imagine?? Kill every male baby born?? Wow. That’s drastic. That’s exactly how Satan feels about me and you. His goal is to kill us, but he doesn’t care if we are male of female, he just cares if we’re saved or lost. When Moses was born, Satan knew that God had great plans for him to lead the people, so Satan wanted him to die. When we are born again, Satan knows God has plans for us (Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.) so he wants to kill us. Kill our dreams, kill our hope, kill our future. He can’t destroy our salvation, and ultimately has no power outside of God’s permission, so he will take anything he can get, and don’t you think for one second he cares at all about you or your family. He’ll stop at nothing and that’s why God stopped at nothing to love us.

Do you have battle scars today?? Oh I do. I’m nursing them even today. But I can’t quit. You can’t quit.

Dear God,
We love you God. You are greater and beyond the words we know to describe you.
God I pray today that my reader and myself will acknowledge the truth. You are beautiful and wonderful and pure, and outside of you we have absolutely nothing to offer. God forgive us where we’ve failed, and help us to understand that we need to turn away from our sins, not just be sorry that we committed them. God we can’t live our lives in victory until we believe and accept you’ve already given it to us, and we could never do anything to earn it. I pray for you to reveal yourself to us today in a new and fresh way and help us to be fully determined in you.
You are all we need, and we have You.
Thank you God. Thank you God. Thank you God.