“At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for in his father’s house.”
{Acts 7:20} (NIV 1984)
I have often wondered, what does “no ordinary child” mean? Hebrews 11:23 repeats it and Exodus 2:2 says “a fine child”. It is especially puzzling to me, because there is no mention of anything special about the baby Jesus. There was obviously something special about Moses; something that his parents noticed and caused them to treat him in a special way.
We are talking here of an infant, a tiny little infant, and yet the Bible, in 3 different passages, makes it clear that this baby was born for the specific purpose of delivering Abraham’s descendants into a rightful worship relationship with the Almighty God. God formed Moses in his mother’s womb and shaped him in such a way that he would be able to be the leader that was required. One baby out of all the others, was given the body, the mind, the personality, the emotional make up, and the spiritual make up, to be the leader that the people needed.
This is how God operates; He creates us in our mother’s womb in such a way that we are equipped to do His will! What about us? What about these little ones in our homes? These infants in our church? Do we see anything special in any of them, or all of them? May we pray this morning for the little ones around us; that God’s purposes will be fulfilled in their lives, that God’s grace would work powerfully in them.
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