Exodus 2
Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 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. 4 And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. 5 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.” 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” 8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
His dad was a priest, his mom was a daughter of a priest. Priests were taken care of. Priests were closest to God.
He was the youngest having an older brother and sister.
He was a "fine" child.
His life was saved by God.
His standard of living was upgraded to the highest realm--he was living in the five star penthouse of all five star penthouses!
Did anything that has happened to Moses so far of his choosing?
He was a child of God--a descendant of God's chosen people
His life was threatened by those who were not God's chosen people--by Gentiles
His life was spared by Gentiles
His early life was raised knowing about God
His later life was surrounded by many other gods
Egypt was the center of culture and wisdom; they were THE College town to attend.
Life was all palm trees and pomegranates, hot rods and hot chicks, industry and commerce, the cultural kool-aid was being drank by the goblet full!
It was the elitist society; prideful and subjugating. The ladder to success had many at bottom who had been trampled, kicked, and shoved off.
And if you weren't Egyptian, you a slave, a means to whatever end the Egyptians said they had.
Those who excelled in school and had training had an upper hand!
If you were strong and could fight you would survive.If you minded your own business and peddled a little here and there you might just make it.
Moses was now in the lair of the best, the lab of the tried and tested and successful.
He had everything going for him.Going for him that is until he made a choice that would set him back.Set him back for years, but not too far back that God couldn't bring up forward again.Where are you right now?
I had a lot of things going for me.
I have had my set-backs.
Those things are in my past.
God has brought me through them all!
And God will bring me through those that are ahead.