Before I delve farther into the book of Exodus, I want to make this plea with you: Please skip all the "religious" movies about Moses as they are all inaccurate, some worse than others. If you want an accurate picture, just read the Bible instead. The change the details that are written and all the gaps Hollywood tries to fill in are not necessary to see God's mighty hand on the life of Moses or any other person from the Bible. Hollywood is full of every filth the Bible speaks against, so why let it be your history teacher? Instead, let the Bible be your guide through history.
The story of Moses begins in Exodus 2 and continues through Deuteronomy 34. Moses' life begins with an act of love as his mother hides him for three months so Pharaoh cannot kill him along with the other male babies he has ordered to be killed.
Moses' mother, Jochebed must have been a woman of faith, and we can easily assume she must have prayed over her little boy as she placed him near the river. God spares the infant's life as he is drawn from the banks by Pharaoh's daughter (not his wife), which is why she named him Moses. Note that nowhere does it say Moses was placed in the water and floated down the river, but it was still miraculous that he was found safe and that Pharaoh's daughter did not follow her powerful father's laws to kill the Hebrew baby boy.
God blesses Jochebed by allowing her to nurse her own son a little while longer. The reason why Jochebed is allowed to stay in her son's life a little longer is because his older sister Miriam is watching out for him and sees Pharaoh's daughter save Moses. Miriam suggests her own mother be her brother's nurse.
So, from the very beginning, God's hand was on the life and care of Moses. It took his mother, Pharaoh's daughter, and Miriam to play their parts. It shows how God uses all of us, if we are willing, to help others in their divine purpose. So never begrudge even the small tasks in life that may help another person be used for God's greater purpose.
God is always in control, even at the beginning of our lives, so let's sit back and let Him lead!
(Exodus 2:1-10) And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?"
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go."
And the maid went and called the child's mother. 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 women 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."
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