A Cutie Pie

O.T. #123  "A Cutie Pie"
Sept. 9, 2013
Exodus 2-Part 2
...and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.  Exodus 2:2

LET IT GLOW


This morning I watched a short video of our youngest grandchild. He is only 3 months old. So what's the big deal? I have yet to hold the sweet baby and smother him with grandma kisses. Although he looks like his brothers did at that age, I can see a peek of his individualism. I saw this cutie pie cooing, laughing, fussing, you name it. How could anyone resist not picking him up? He looks like a goodly child, as Moses did, I must say.

I missed something. Verse 2 says that Moses was a goodly child, which can refer to men or women. The Hebrew word is towb, which can mean beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, fair,etc.

Moses' appearance from birth as a goodly child indicates a healthy, vigorous condition which his parents took as a sign of his future importance. (Falwell)

He was comely to God, or divinely beautiful. this very circumstance was wisely ordained by the kind providence of God to be one means or his preservation. In all likelihood the Egyptian princess would not have saved him had he been only an ordinary child. (Matthew Henry)

When people look at us, do they see a child of the King that is goodly?

LET IT GROW

Moses was beautiful in the sight of God. His parents gave him to God by faith. Parents never know what God sees in each child that is born, and it is important that parents raise their children in the fear of God. It took real faith to put the child in the river, the very place where young boys were being destroyed. (Wiersbe)

Have we given our children and grandchildren into the hands of God?
What about us, have we given our lives into the Potter's Hands to shape and mold and use for His glory?

LET IT GO

See children as goodly in the sight of God. Oh, how He loves you and me.

Surrender to our Heavenly Father.

Be divinely beautiful.