God’s Silence

In times of trouble, we ask “Where is God?”. We say God is silent and enjoying our miseries. An example of God’s invisible hand is the birth and upbringing of Moses.

When Pharaoh commanded his people to cast every son, who is born, of Hebrews into the Nile river, there was weeping and wailing in the land. The joy of a family when they receive the child has now changed into fright and anxiety. If the child was a boy then their nine months preparation for the child was in vain. The parents have to see their hope, their happiness being cast into the Nile and drowned in water. The children of Israel must have questioned the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. They might have refused to believe the God of their fathers. They might have thought He is dead.

But then comes the birth of a baby whose mother saw that he was beautiful. The mother must have prepared herself for casting the baby if it was a boy. The mother must have gone through turmoil of the thought that her son being killed and must have cursed the time the child was going to be born. But when she saw that the boy was beautiful, she hid him. Every child is precious to their mothers. Egyptians must have snatched the sons from their mothers. But here is a mother who hid her son for three months because he was beautiful. It is nothing but God’s work. How would Moses’ mother dare to keep her son if it wasn’t for the courage the Lord gave her.

After three months, when she could no longer hide her child, she did not give her child to be killed. But took an ark of bulrushes, coated it with asphalt and pitch and put the child in it and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. The mother must have cried her heart out for giving up on her child. Then the daughter of Pharaoh came to bathe at the river. She must have seen many children dead in the river and it must have been a daily sight for her. So it was God who moved Pharaoh’s daughter’s heart to have compassion on the baby.

We see ahead that the child was nursed by his mother until he was a grown up. Moses was drawn out of the very waters that killed many children. The rescue of the children of Israel came from the very time they thought there would be no hope. It was not a normal incident that Moses was saved. It was clearly God’s hand that sustained Moses and giving him princely upbringing. God used Moses eighty years after his birth. God could’ve raised Moses some other time, when there was peace in the land. But He did not because it shows that God’s work is present in our lives even when we cannot feel it. God was not silent but His invisible hand was with him.

From the very time we dread the most, God has raised a hope for us. We do not see and we cannot see even if we tried. But it is surely near us. God will bring it into your life for your revival at his appointed time. Times have been hard for the world but it does not mean that God is silent but His invisible hand is always at work. God bless you. Amen.