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Wait and Watch
June 20, 2023
Do you like to fish? My wife likes to fish more than I do. I can fish for about fifteen minutes and then I’m done. She can stay the course and watch the water and wait to see what happens for half a day. She says it’s relaxing… I lose focus. She can watch and wait to see what happens. There is a wonderful element of faith in watching and waiting.
In the birth story of Moses, found in Exodus 2, there is some of this going on.
“Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.” When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
Can you imagine the faith involved in putting your baby in the Nile and waiting and watching to see what happens?