Divine Deliverance

Moses’ Named

And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water. Exodus:2.9-10

Moses’ Egyptian naming tells of mercifully drawing an infant child from waters of the Nile that surely would have taken his life, like so many other Jewish infant boys being murdered by Pharaoh’s soldiers and tossed into the river. Water would become a huge theme in the life of Moses and the Jews. By command from God, he would strike the water with his Shepherd Staff and turn it into blood. By the same Rod of God, the Red Sea would open a path of escape for Israel as Egyptian chariots bore down on God’s People trapped at the shore. Finally, in desert wilderness, Moses struck a rock with his Staff to bring forth drinking water for Jews dying of thirst.

If there were a Spiritual interpretation for Moses, perhaps it would be “Mo Sees” or “More Sees,” as he was privileged to see God and to lead the way by divine guidance out of bondage to a land of milk and honey. He “saw things” as a Holy Man of God, sufficient to write the first five books of the Bible: The Pentateuch. Within the Pentateuch cornerstone were Ten Commandments given him to preserve people of God suffering broken Spirit attributable to cruel bondage. Moses was a ‘headlight for God” drawn from the Levites as a God-appointed High Priest charged with sacred deliverance of His only children on Earth, long suffering and hovering at the edge of extinction. Without the Holy Eyes of Moses, where would dear but fragile Jewels of God be?

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