Exodus 2:2,  “And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he [was a] goodly [child], she hid him three months.”

Exodus 2:6,  “And when she had opened [it], she saw him the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This [is one] of the Hebrews’ children.”

When Napoleon began his conquest of Europe he realized something very important.  He was a great general and warrior but he knew diddly about running a government. He happened to notice that the Jews often lived in separate communities. This was because they did not follow the state Christian religion and were outcast.  They lived in constant fear and danger of pogroms and persecution from the Christian community.  Napoleon wasn’t religious but he was smart. He knew these Jews were gifted at running a government and were desperate for a protector.  He went to the Jewish community and asked for their help in running the governments in the lands that he conquered. In return he would give them protection from persecution and even said he would capture Israel and when he did he would turn the land over to them.  A smart move, from that point on when he blessed the Jews, he was really blessed and went on to bring France into greatness.  Then his sons came along when knew not the Jews and the empire went into very quick decline.

History was only repeating itself for in the 15^th Dynasty of Egypt the Hyksos invaded Egypt and these foreigners set up their own Dynasty in Egypt leaving the Egyptians as a conquered people. This was also the time that Joseph, the Hebrew, came along and the Hyksos  Pharaoh saw something in Joseph.  When Joseph spoke of a coming famine the Pharaoh panicked because it was famine and plague that really brought down the 14^th  Dynasty and gave the Hyksos the opportunity to seize control of the land.  So the Pharaoh not only made Joseph a Prime Minister but brought his whole family over and gave them a favored position over the conquered Egyptians.

Well eventually the Hyksos were over thrown and the Egyptians were restored to power and they were not too pleased with these Hebrews who enjoyed such favored status over them.  They also were very aware of the special talents that these Hebrew seemed to possess such that this Pharaoh who knew not Joseph put the Hebrews into slavery and sought to have his own version of the Holocaust and kill all the male children thereby wiping out the Hebrew race.

The midwives refused to obey the order to kill all the male babies and God blessed them.  There was one male baby that stood out among the rest for the midwife saw that he was a good baby.  I mean all babies are good babies.  What was so special about this one?  The word good that is used here is tov which really means to be in harmony with someone. The midwife saw that this child was in harmony with God he was special in the eyes of God. Just what did she see in this baby that indicated he was special in the eyes of God?

When things became too hot for her to hide the child she put him in a basket and floated him down the river to the daughter of Pharaoh. Seeing an uncircumcised baby this woman would instantly know it was a Hebrew child and  should have had him instantly killed. Yet the Bible says that the baby cried and she had compassion on him. Actually, the word compassion in the Hebrew is chamal which is the word found in the ten commandments for covet. She wanted this child, she coveted him.  I mean come on, babies were a dime a dozen, if Pharaoh’ daughter  wanted to adopt a baby all she had to do was snap her fingers and she could have all she wanted. Why this particular one?  I mean all babies cry, was it just the perfect timing?  That Talmud teaches in Sotar 12b that it was something else.

Before the baby even cried, the Bible says, she saw him the child  tire’ahu eth hayeled. The suffix hu (him) is explained as a reference to God and the particle eth (Aleph Taw) as with and not the sign of the direct object.  In other words she saw God with the child.  Then the baby cried, God cried for His people and she saw the tears of God for His people.

There is an old song that says, we are the only Jesus that people will ever see. As Christians we believe that the very God of the universe lives inside of us.  Stop and consider that.  That awesome, overpowering, complete and perfect love lives inside of us. Why is it that you cannot help but love a baby, perhaps that baby has yet to enter into sins that gradually erode that perfect presence of love of God.  Why does the enemy want to encourage abortions?  Perhaps he does not want us to be exposed that perfect love.  A love, a presence that melted even the heart of the daughter of the Pharaoh who hated and feared the Hebrews.

By the time we pass through that infancy stage we become so full of ourselves and our selfish fleshly desires that the love and presence of God can no longer be seen. Yet, when we accept Jesus as our Savior and stand sinless before Him, for a moment we recapture that light of God. But even though we now have the living, loving life of Christ inside of us, the Apostle Paul says, that old man keeps rearing its ugly head diminishing that Light within us. Yet, that light is still within us, ready to shine and bring the love of Jesus to a sad and lonely world.

When I was a student at Moody Bible Institute I met an elder man who just radiated with joy, love and peace. It was as if his face just shined with a light that you could almost measure it with a light meter.  I was so impressed that when he walked away I commented out loud to no one in particular, “Man, I bet he is someone special.”  A person next me over hearing what I said asked? “Why do you say that.”  I replied, “I don’t know it was just like being in his presence was, I don’t know.”  The person filled in my loss of words by asking, “Sort of like being a blessing?”  I said, “Yeah, that’s it, that is it exactly what it is.”  My friend replied, “He is the former music teacher at Moody and a song writer. He wrote the song, Make me a Blessing.”

Out in the highways and byways of life

Many are weary and sad,

Carry the sunshine where darkness is rife

Making the sorrowing glad

Make me a blessing, Make me a blessing

Out of my life, may Jesus shine

Make me a blessing, I pray

Make me a blessing to someone today.

May people today tire’ahu eth – see Him with us.