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.

A Prince Yet A Stranger

Moses is born, hidden by his mother and then saved by his parents by placing him in a small boat and floated in a calm place among the reeds in the river. There he is rescued when a princess of Egypt, one of Pharaoh’s daughters, sees the child and rescues him. His sister Miriam who was set to watch over her little brother, runs to the princess and tell her she knows a nursemaid who can care for the child. Miriam goes and gets Moses’ own mother and she nurses her child in the courts of Pharaoh. There as time passes by she would also teaches him who he really was and most importantly who his God is.

He is raised in the Egyptian courts as a prince of Egypt but taught by his Mother, a Hebrew slave. Because of this he knew that the Pharaoh’s palace was not his real home.

Despite being adopted into the luxury, ease, and the privilege of royal life, Moses still knew he was a stranger in the courts of Pharoah’s palace.

In The World But Not Of The World

Do you see a parallel in Moses in Pharoah’s palace and us as Christians in this world. Both have been taken in, both have been accepted, both have access to what their new environment offers but both Moses and Christians are strangers in our surroundings and really can never be home here.

Moses’ mother taught him and he accepted the truth and was a believer in the one true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Egpyt could never be his home. Someone shared the Gospel with us and we become believers in God’s Son, Jesus who died for us on Calvary. From that point on we were no longer a part of this world.

Jesus when He prayed in the Garden, prayed that we would be sanctified through His word, set apart from the world and set for God’s service.  John 17:14-20 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

Jesus prayed for us, stating that we are not part of this world, we may have been born here but we are not of here. After salvation this world is a stranger to me and I am a stranger to it.

It would have been far easier for Moses to remain a prince of Egypt, but he knew who he really was. He was a child of God, a Hebrew, a wanderer, looking for the home God had promised his people and that promised place was not a palace in Egypt.

We as Christians must understand who we are and the home we are destined for. We must never forget that we are on this earth for a very short time and that our real home, our own heavenly promised land, is not of this world.
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