Wednesday, April 09, 2008
He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. Ex. 2:6
Have you ever re-read something in the Bible that you thought you were very familiar with and suddnely noticed a line that you realize you'd never read before? I was reading Exodus - the part where Moses's mother puts him in the basket and Pharaoh's daughter finds him and I noticed the verse above. I guess it's not a really important verse and doesn't have a lot of deep meaning, but I sort of identified with this woman who's been dead for thousands of years, looking down at this pitiful 3 month old. It's things like this that make me think that times have not really changed - I mean, obviously technology has changed a lot of things, but what she felt was pretty timeless...at least I hope.
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I am always amazed at the things I continue to find in scripture even when it's a passage I've heard or read a hundred times before. It never gets old because life continues to change and challenge us. And those precious words take on new meaning and application for the needs of the moment. Whew! I need to write that down somewhere. Oh, I just did.
ReplyDeleteI agree - and probably this particular quote is more meaningful to me right now because I have a baby. Also, I think that most people think of the Bible as this super-spiritual book, but so much of it shows us people we have things in common with interacting with God.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet Moses was cute.
ReplyDeleteUndoubtably :)
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