Have you experienced something seemingly going awry only to see it all work out later? Has something initially seemed so wrong, but worked out for your good later? Have you taken time to think about how that happened? Have you given credit to God?
We experience things going badly from our perspective. We wonder how this could happen to us. We get frustrated, angry, and depressed. Our minds race to find answers. We may reach out to family or friends for help in understanding. We may even cry out to God.
Our perspective is limited. Far too often we are only thinking of the here and now. We live in the moment, not able to see the future and often not looking at the past. To exacerbate our situations, we often won’t listen to advice from someone who is wiser, who has gone through some tough times, who may have the gift of foreseeing how things may play out.
Despite our circumstances, God is at work. Pharoah had commanded that ALL people of Egypt kill any newborn Hebrew males. He had made it a responsibility of every Egyptian citizen to carry out this horrible task due to his own fear. However, he did not account for God working in the background, specifically through his daughter.
Pharoah’s daughter disobeyed her father’s edict to rescue a Hebrew male child from the river. Not only that, but she allowed the child’s mother to nurse him until he was weened. She took him in as her own son and named him Moses. Little did she and her father know the child she rescued would be used by God to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt.
God works in amazing ways. We do not always see what he is doing. But just like Moses’ mother, we must do what we can do and leave the rest in God’s hands, trusting him to carry out his plan. God knows our limitations, even though he has no limitations. He will use each of us to carry out his plan if we are willing to be used by him.
I pray we all do the best we can with what we know and have. I pray we trust God to carry out his plan. I pray each one of us will submit to being used by God and trust him in all situations. Do what you can do. Trust God. Trust God’s plan. Turn to him. Spend time in prayer. Discern what God would have you do.
Exodus 2:5 The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it.
Marty Pressey 