GOD’S SILENCE CAN BE GOOD
Part
one of four in Trusting God series
Exodus
2:4: “His sister stood at a distance to see
what would happen to him.”
A Hebrew couple living in
Egypt had a baby girl they named Miriam. After several years, they also had a boy. “He’s so fine!” they exclaimed.
But the Egyptian Pharaoh had already ordered: “Every
[Hebrew] boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”
(Exodus 1:22).
The baby remained a secret for three months.
Mom formed a desperate plan to keep him alive and
enlisted her daughter, “Miriam, please help me.”
“Doing what?” Miriam asked.
“We’re going to try saving our baby boy, Miriam!”
Miriam watched mom take a papyrus basket and coat the bottom
with tar and pitch. “That yucky black
stuff stinks!” Miriam said, pinching her nose shut.
Her mom said, “I know that, but the tar and pitch will
make this basket water proof.”
“But why?” Miriam asked.
“We’re going to float him on the Nile,” mom schemed. “Maybe—by the grace of God—someone will find
him and keep him safe.”
They walked to the Nile’s river banks. The baby boy was hidden underneath a blanket
over his cradle that was nestled inside the papyrus basket. Separating the tall reed stalks, mom kissed
her baby boy—whispering a prayer for his safety—and gently floated him on the
river.
Miriam watched in disbelief. A tear trickled down her cheek. “Mom!”
It’s the only way, Miriam,” mom said. “Watch him.
I can’t bear to stay—I’m going home to pray.”
Miriam prayed, too. “Yahweh, please let no Egyptian find him!”
The daughter of Pharaoh came to the river to bathe.
“Please Yahweh, don’t let HER find my brother!” Miriam
pleaded.
But she DOES find the basket and screeched to her
attendants, “Help me get this basket!”
Miriam gulped and prayed, Please Yahweh, make him appear
ugly, so she’ll put him back!”
But Pharaoh’s daughter heard him cry, and pitied
him. “He must be a Hebrew baby,” she
figured, from the blanket design. “He’s
gorgeous! I will claim him as my son,”
she said. Cradling him in her arms, she
demanded, “Bring someone to nurse him.”
Miriam, peering through the reeds where she crouched low
to the ground, stood up. She offered, “I
know the perfect woman!”
Pharaoh’s daughter said, “Get her for me!”
Take
Home Nugget
Miriam fled home. “Mom!
You’ll never guess what? Pharaoh’s
daughter found my brother crying and told me to bring her someone to nurse
him!”
Check out the lesson linked below to learn how things
worked out for the baby boy.
Holy Father, thank You for Your silence to
prayers when You’ve got something else perfect in mind! Amen.
Adapted from “The Gift of
Unanswered Prayers” by Rabbi Eckstein.
August 19, 2016. www.holylandmoments.com
J.D. Griffith
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