2014 BSF "The Life of Moses" Lesson 1, Q11~Q12

FIFTH DAY: Read Exodus 2:1-10.

Q11.

a. List ways God arranged for Moses’ safety and adoption by Pharaoh’s daughter.

God let the Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank.  

God arranged she saw the basket among the reeds.

In God’s will that she felt sorry when she saw the Hebrew baby crying. Hence she allowed the Hebrew women to nurse the baby.

b. How might she have known that Moses was a Hebrew baby?

It’s the Pharaoh’s order that: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile.”

c. What characteristics do you see in Moses’ sister, who would have been at least 8 years old at this time?

Moses’ sister showed her love and care to her baby brother that she stood at a distance to see what would happen to Moses. She’s also smart by saying to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”  Moses’ sister went and got her mother.

Q12.

a. List the advantages to Moses of living as a young child with his own mother.

Besides the better nurturing and careful babysitting, the culture and law from God to Israel also have imprinted in Moses’ heart.

b. Read Acts 7:20-22. What advantages did Moses receive as the adopted son of Pharaoh’s daughter?

Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.

c. What advantages have you experienced because of the family or families in which God placed you as a child? How will you thank God for these things?

Both my mother and father came from destitute families and they were diligent people. I appreciate they taught me became a diligent worker and have been educated well. I thank God for what I have and what I've lost. I’d like to use what I have learned to glory God’s kingdom.

d. How do the circumstances of Moses’ birth and childhood encourage you to trust God?

Moses is an adopted kid. I guess there must be contradictions in his childhood because the Egyptian and himself see he is not an Egyptian, neither the Israelites see him an Israelite. However, those arrangements all came from God’s great plan to train Moses as a leader to bring Israelite out of Egypt.  As well as the challenges we had or will have in our life may be the same case.