Through the lens of Young married
Israel in Egypt and the birth of Moses
There is a small detail in Exodus 2 worth holding onto in any marriage with kids. When she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket… and placed the child in it (Ex 2:3).
Jochebed and Amram had a son they could not protect. The state had decreed his death. They could only hide him for so long. Eventually they had to do the most counterintuitive thing imaginable — put him on the very river that was supposed to kill him.
There comes a moment in marriage when you and your spouse have to entrust to God a child you can no longer protect. Sometimes it is literal — a hospital, a diagnosis, a decision they make as adults. Sometimes it is figurative — letting a kid go to college, watching them date, releasing them into a world you can’t shield them from. Marriages that grip too hard suffocate the kids. Marriages that release into the Father’s hand discover that He pulls children out of rivers we couldn’t navigate.
One small thing this week: name one place where you have been gripping too tightly to a child or to something else under your care. Tell your spouse. Pray together. Put the basket in the river. Watch the Father.