The God that Hides thee…

As I continue to meditate upon Christmas, I can’t seem to run out of mysteries unfolding. Here’s another;

After Jesus had been born, the Wise men gifted Him before returning to their country. The Lord warned them to go by a different way, and not tell Herod of the new born King as he sought to kill Him.

Due to that, Herod ended up killing all the babies born at that time, hoping to get rid of this born-King that he had not laid in bed to have!

Through an angel, Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father was warned. To Egypt they fled, returning after the time when their pursuer’s regime had come to pass!

This killing was the exact thing that happened during Moses’ infancy. Since the Hebrews were growing rapidly in number, they posed as threat to the Egyptians, and so the Pharaoh decided to kill all new-borns of Hebrew ancestry.

Moses’ mother placed him in a basket smeared with tar, and set it upon the waters of the Nile! Watching Prince of Egypt 1998, put a different perspective in my mind!

Many of us read that part in the Bible, but we never stop to think/imagine critically. In the animation, Moses’ basket is shown having trouble along the Nile. It voyages through the mouths of fighting hippos and wrestling alligators.

It’s nearly snatched by some Egyptians who are fishing along the Nile, but it vamooses. The river has RAPIDS! The basket is graced to sail through it all. But I ask myself, couldn’t anyone else have seen it floating by!

If the basket was completely tar, how did the baby breath inside? And if you claim that the upper part wasn’t tarred, chances are the baby could still have drowned from water drops leaking through by the remorseless waves. On the other hand, possible it is yet, that the Lord bade the waters to be still and let glide Moses’ creel.

As we are still seeking answers…Have you thought about the fact that baby Moses could have been crying loudly!!! No one discovered him notwithstanding. I feel like a basket on a river can’t fail to attract the eye. What if it floated for a mile! Or two! Or for three hours!

However, the story is written, by the adult version of this baby himself, how he landed in the arms of the daughter of the very Pharaoh who sought to kill Him! See how God hides. With humor He does! 😂

A joke goes around how a thief tried to steal his roommate but never found the cash he desired. After ransacking everything, the roommate showed up and told the thief he had hidden the money in the thief’s pillow! Similarly, God hid the very thing Pharaoh sought to smite, in his very own house!

Ah.. The mockery!

God hid David from Saul who sought to kill him. God hid Daniel while Shadrach, Abednego & Meshach got thrown in the fire.

He hid you from Covid! It never saw you even when you forgot to wear a mask or sanitize. He hid you from death in case you got Covid and recovered!

God still hides today. He’ll hide you from accidents you knew nothing of; From pestilences unimagined to you; from corrupt friends and poisonous relationships; from destiny killers and dream slayers; and from ideas that would ruin your future.

Worry not about your foe. Be not anxious about anything. Here’s hope; Your God shall hide you from all that you dread!

Psalms 32:7 You [are] my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance.

Psalms 27:5 For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me;