Pastor Obie continues that the fourth lesson about raising world-changers today that we learn from Jochebed is that she planted seeds of faith. Exodus 2:8-10 says, And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child's mother. 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 (Jochebed) took the child and nursed him. 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.” What Pharaoh meant for evil, God meant for good. The Nile River, which Pharaoh intended to end Hebrew lives, was the instrument that deliverance of Hebrew life from slavery and bondage, and ultimately, where God’s world salvation from sin and death would be drawn out of, for that even is the meaning of Moses’ prophetic name. And Pharaoh’s own check book would the raising of this child come. God blesses the broken road that leads us straight to Him.
Moses was back in his mother’s arms to be raised during his developmental years. God is so good. Jochebed safely and securely planted seeds of faith into her son of who he was and whose he was in the chosen people of the One true Creator God and telling the stories of the faithful heroes of the past from Adam to Jacob. The thing about seeds is that you plant them now and they grow to produce their crop latter Now only would this Moses deliver God’s people from Egypt by the hand of God, but also another season in life when, by the Spirit of God, he went on to end up writing the historical first five books of the Bible for everyone across the ages. Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Acts 7:20-22 tells us, “At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house, and when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.”
Time eventually came when Moses had to leave his mother Jochebed and move into the household of Pharaoh’s daughter, where he would grow up to be an adult. Moses received the best education in the most powerful and technologically advanced nation in the world at that time, with position and prestige, while living in the lap of luxury, yet the seeds of faith were planted by his mother that would sprout and make him the world changer that God intended. Hebrews 11:24-27 tells us, “By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.”
The seeds of faith that were planted, sprouted and Moses chose to be identified with the people of God and His purposes, so boldly stepped into the calling that God instilled within him to change the world. Through three siblings, Moses, Arron and Miriam, a nation would be changed from captivity and bondage under Egypt to freedom under God. And ultimately, they changed humanity because through this group the entire world would be changed as God would unfold His plan of redemption through Jesus Christ. Psalm 127:3-5 says, “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!”
Jochebed modeled seeing with a heavenly perspective, providing safety and security in who they were as God’s people, studying the heroes of the faith for what to do, and she planted seeds of faith for and in her children that no matter when they went in life, they would never forget their roots and their calling because she prepared them for flight to hit the mark as a world-changer, impacting history. Parents are entrusted by their Creator and a duty to protect, raise and teach that child in the ways of the Lord.
You only have a finite time spend with them, prepare them and show that the narrow path of righteousness. Kids grow up so fast and your time is short before they leave and make it in this world on their own comes. Plants those seeds of faith in them as you raise them in the ways of the Lord. Prepare them with the time that you have left with them, before they leave the nest. When prepare right, no matter what the winds of this fallen world send against them, they will stay steady and, on the path, to hit the mark that God has for them. If you identify yourself as a Believer and Follower of Jesus Christ, you are in the family of God; an arrow in the heavenly quiver of your Heavenly Father. But, arrows were not meant to stay in the quiver, but to fly to the target and hit the mark. Ephesians 2:10 tells us, “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
There is a purpose in the world that God has prepared beforehand for us. God has a plan and we have the purpose to make an impact for the Kingdom in this world. If Jesus Christ is your Savior and Lord, then you have been tasked with the Great Commission to go make disciples (student/followers), teaching them everything that He has commanded. Christians make Christians who make Christians. So, you are meant to be a world-changer, a planet-shaper, and a cultural innovator. See the world with the heavenly perspective (God’s perspective), be sensitive to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in your life, be secure in who you are (not what the fallen world, your enemies or your past says you are, but in who God’s says you are), that you would study and connect with the Holy Scriptures in the Word of God found in the pages of the Bible, plant seeds of faith wherever you go. You might not change the entire world, but if you move forward and progress towards the calling that God has established and stay faithful to that plan and purpose that He has for you, then you will change someone’s world. Make a difference in this world for the Kingdom of God.
In Christ, Brian
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