NURSING A CHILD

 “Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will repay you.”  (Ex 2:9)

Father in heaven, thank you so much for giving me a heart that truly loves children. The joy that I experience each time I kiss and embrace a child can never be paid by any material wealth in the world. It opens up everything in me to give just so I can make them happy. In a very special way, I thank you for giving me a daughter who has become one of my most valuable treasure. A child that you alone can give. With much love and thanksgiving I pray in Jesus Name. Amen.

July 16, 2013 - Tuesday, 9:02 AM
STORM CHILD

While eating lunch at a Japanese Restaurant with my wife and daughter, the waitress asked me, "is she your only child for I heard you calling her baby"? I answered her yes but added, "although she is only one, she is as good as a dozen children for she is a storm child". If the Pharaoh's daughter who adopted the child Moses called him with such a name that means "drew out of the water", my child is not just like water to me but a storm. This is how much I love her for I believed that she is one of the greatest gift and treasure I received from the Lord.

STORY OF THE CHILD "MOSES"
Exodus 2:1-10

A certain man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, who conceived and bore a son. Seeing that he was a goodly child, she hid him for three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took a papyrus basket, daubed it with bitumen and pitch, and putting the child in it, placed it among the reeds on the river bank. His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

Pharaoh’s daughter came down to the river to bathe, while her maids walked along the river bank. Noticing the basket among the reeds, she sent her handmaid to fetch it. On opening it, she looked, and lo, there was a baby boy, crying! She was moved with pity for him and said, “It is one of the Hebrews’ children.” Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” “Yes, do so,” she answered. So the maiden went and called the child’s own mother.

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will repay you.” The woman therefore took the child and nursed it. When the child grew, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him as her son and called him Moses; for she said, “I drew him out of the water.”