Exodus 2:10: "And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. So she called his name Moses, saying, 'Because I drew him out of the water.'" A new Pharaoh took over in Egypt. He was afraid that the large Israelite population might revolt against Egypt and join with their enemies and fight against them. So Pharaoh decided to make the Israelites slaves and kill all newborn male children as soon as they were born by casting them in the river. Moses was born and his mother puts him in a basket and floats him down the river. Pharaoh's daughter finds him and decides to keep him as her son. She calls him Moses which literally means "drawn out" because she drew him out of the water. Later, Moses would lead the Israelites out of bondage. The Red Sea would be parted and the Israelites would pass over on dry land but the Egyptian army following behind them would be drowned because the Red Sea came back together. God has a way of taking the evil plots of wicked men and turning it back on them. The point is that we, as believers, need not fear the plans to hurt us, but rather, we are to trust in God's Providence to guide us through our own Red Sea and escape the plots against us.
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