By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king’s commandment. Hebrews 11:23
A number of states reacted with shock and anger at an advisory from the White House threatening the withdrawal of funds from American school systems that refuse to allow students to use whatever washrooms they want. It is good to see these states push back against such an immoral and dangerous policy, although it remains to be seen whether they will be able to prevail against a president whose administration has been marked by his usurping authority never accorded to his office by the US constitution. Can this deeply evil man eventually force all public schools to allow child molesters and perverts into women’s and girls washrooms? If he can, the flood of students into home schooling and private Christian schools will increase by leaps and bounds. Court challenges to protect the privacy and dignity of women and girls will increase sharply as well. Good people will be not only willing but also forced to pay whatever price is necessary to protect their loved ones. They will be like the parents of one of God’s greatest men of the Old Testament.
Good people will do everything they can to protect their children. That is why it is difficult to understand how a president who has young daughters would even consider such a policy as has been thrust on American schools. Perhaps he will sing a different tune once his daughters no longer have round-the-clock protection from Secret Service agents. So it is not difficult to understand how Amram and Jochebed would be willing to defy the order of a cruel and wicked Pharaoh to have their son killed. But this set of godly parents not only wanted their son protected and preserved, they also managed to pull it off. It must have been hard for those first three months. Babies cry, and can do so loudly and unexpectedly, as any parent knows very well. But those parents of Moses did what they must to save their little boy. Even before he was born, they would have had to hide the fact of Jochebed’s pregnancy, because if Pharaoh’s spies learned of that, they would have watched her intensely to see whether she bore a boy or a girl. The birth, with all of its activity and sounds, must have been incredibly difficult to keep under wraps. And then, for three months, somebody must have kept a sharp lookout for the spies or even any tattle-tales who would have given them away in exchange for money or favours from the spies. No doubt, constant prayers were said for the safety of that baby. But they persisted, because they saw the worth of the child they were protecting.
Many parents today fail to see God’s purposes in the potential for their children. So they fail to protect their children from the influences of school companions and systems that will destroy their little ones’ character. They fail to enforce the principles of the Bible and godliness in the home to make sure their children at an early age are presented with the message of their need for salvation and of the Saviour’s love for their souls. Just like it cost Moses’ parents much to preserve their tiny son, so it will cost today’s parents much to protect their children. Whether they pay the price depends on whether they see the potential in their children that Moses’ parents did.
It takes great faith for parents to do everything they can to make sure their children become everything that God would have them to be. -Jim MacIntosh