And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Israel had become numerous in Egypt, and Egypt's king feared their numbers and subjected them to harsh slavery before Moses was born. The son was born to Amram and Jochebed, his Hebrew mother living as an exile and slave. At that time Pharaoh's decree to kill Hebrew boys and put all the male children of the Hebrews to a cruel death was in force.
When his parents saw that he was a goodly child, they trusted that God would soon deliver Israel and raise up a deliverer. In faith strengthened not to fear the king's command they hid him three months rather than obey, for as long as they safely could. It was the act of an anxious mother seeking to save and preserve his life. Her power to shape his character in those earliest years was paramount, making the verse an example of a mother's influence.
The Lord God guided in all the transactions connected with the child, and the heavenly host watched with interest as he was hidden and placed in the little ark of bulrushes. The same divine Instructor who guided the portrayal of the prophetic records of Revelation and the history of the life, condemnation, and crucifixion of Christ guided the tracing of this story. This shows that the Bible deals with the most minute details as well as the greatest affairs of life. It was placed on record so that all may realize that all their actions are seen by God and by the heavenly angels.
After hiding him, she placed him in a carefully sealed bulrush vessel by the river and entrusted him to God while his sister watched nearby. After Pharaoh's daughter found him, compassion led her to take him as her son. That gave his mother the opportunity to nurse and teach him. His brief years with his Hebrew family, before he passed beyond her protection and was separated early from his childhood home, were spent in first training in the lowly cabin home in Goshen.
During that time his mother earnestly sought to link him with heaven and plant love and loyalty to God in his heart. She instilled reverence for God, love of truth and justice, and rejection of idolatry, preparing him for his future work and great mission as leader and deliverer of Israel. With a Hebrew home education his mind was trained to see God in the words of revelation and the scenes of nature, so that the stars of heaven, the trees and flowers of the field, the lofty mountains and the babbling brooks spoke to him and the voices of the prophets heard throughout the land met a response in his heart. Those brief years laid the foundation of his greatness through the influence of his mother, though she was little known. Her care in his earliest years shaped his developing mind and character and determined his whole future life. The truths she taught and lived remained with him despite later influences.
The verse teaches the special responsibility resting upon the mother, because by her life-blood the child is nourished and its physical frame built up, and she imparts to it mental and spiritual influences that tend to the shaping of mind and character. The work of the Christian mother has no equal, holding to a very great extent the destiny of her children in dealing with developing minds and characters for time and eternity. She sows seed that will bear fruit for good or for evil by impressing the image of the divine upon the human soul, with impressions made in early years remaining through life. Parents are therefore to direct the instruction and training of children while very young to make them Christians, training them not as heirs to the throne of an earthly empire but as kings unto God to reign through unending ages. Every mother's priceless moments will be tested in the solemn day of accounts, when many failures and crimes of men and women will be found to result from ignorance and neglect in guiding childish feet, and many who blessed the world with genius and truth and holiness will be found to owe their guiding principles to a praying Christian mother.
Israel had become numerous in Egypt, and Egypt's king feared their numbers and subjected them to harsh slavery before Moses was born. The son was born to Amram and Jochebed, his Hebrew mother living as an exile and slave. At that time Pharaoh's decree to kill Hebrew boys and put all the male children of the Hebrews to a cruel death was in force.
When his parents saw that he was a goodly child, they trusted that God would soon deliver Israel and raise up a deliverer. In faith strengthened not to fear the king's command they hid him three months rather than obey, for as long as they safely could. It was the act of an anxious mother seeking to save and preserve his life. Her power to shape his character in those earliest years was paramount, making the verse an example of a mother's influence.
The Lord God guided in all the transactions connected with the child, and the heavenly host watched with interest as he was hidden and placed in the little ark of bulrushes. The same divine Instructor who guided the portrayal of the prophetic records of Revelation and the history of the life, condemnation, and crucifixion of Christ guided the tracing of this story. This shows that the Bible deals with the most minute details as well as the greatest affairs of life. It was placed on record so that all may realize that all their actions are seen by God and by the heavenly angels.
After hiding him, she placed him in a carefully sealed bulrush vessel by the river and entrusted him to God while his sister watched nearby. After Pharaoh's daughter found him, compassion led her to take him as her son. That gave his mother the opportunity to nurse and teach him. His brief years with his Hebrew family, before he passed beyond her protection and was separated early from his childhood home, were spent in first training in the lowly cabin home in Goshen.
During that time his mother earnestly sought to link him with heaven and plant love and loyalty to God in his heart. She instilled reverence for God, love of truth and justice, and rejection of idolatry, preparing him for his future work and great mission as leader and deliverer of Israel. With a Hebrew home education his mind was trained to see God in the words of revelation and the scenes of nature, so that the stars of heaven, the trees and flowers of the field, the lofty mountains and the babbling brooks spoke to him and the voices of the prophets heard throughout the land met a response in his heart. Those brief years laid the foundation of his greatness through the influence of his mother, though she was little known. Her care in his earliest years shaped his developing mind and character and determined his whole future life. The truths she taught and lived remained with him despite later influences.
The verse teaches the special responsibility resting upon the mother, because by her life-blood the child is nourished and its physical frame built up, and she imparts to it mental and spiritual influences that tend to the shaping of mind and character. The work of the Christian mother has no equal, holding to a very great extent the destiny of her children in dealing with developing minds and characters for time and eternity. She sows seed that will bear fruit for good or for evil by impressing the image of the divine upon the human soul, with impressions made in early years remaining through life. Parents are therefore to direct the instruction and training of children while very young to make them Christians, training them not as heirs to the throne of an earthly empire but as kings unto God to reign through unending ages. Every mother's priceless moments will be tested in the solemn day of accounts, when many failures and crimes of men and women will be found to result from ignorance and neglect in guiding childish feet, and many who blessed the world with genius and truth and holiness will be found to owe their guiding principles to a praying Christian mother.