19 Nov THE BASKET OF SALVATION

Moses was born in a very dangerous time, for the king of Egypt had commanded that every male child that was born to the Israelites should be killed. So, his mother hid him for three months. When she could not hide him any longer, she decided to make a basket to put him on the river, and perhaps someone would find and take care of him.

Humanly speaking, there would be no salvation for that baby. Reason says he would die, drowned on the Nile or perhaps eaten by its crocodiles, but God had different plans.

God’s providence brought him to the very daughter of the king of Egypt to find and have pity on him, asking a random woman to nurse him for a while. Well, that woman was his own mother (Exodus 2:1-10). Long story short, Moses received this name because he was “drawn from the water.”

God sent that child to the very heart of the enemy, so that he’d be prepared to lead the people of God in a great deliverance and salvation. Moses was, thus, a type of Christ; in other words, what happened to him resembled what would happen to Jesus in the future.

Jesus Christ was sent in a very dangerous time, when there was a decree from the Roman king to kill Hebrew babies. He came to the heart of the enemy, for “we know that… the whole world lies in the power of the evil one” (I John 5:19), and He was prepared to lead His people and face all the powers of the world that were against Him.

Just like baby Moses, all of us are in danger because our enemy is great and powerful, but just as a simple basket was provided for Moses’ deliverance, for us, God has provided the Cross. Through Jesus on that Cross, we will be delivered from the drowning and beasts of this world. In His arms, we are secure and at perfect peace.