If you have read very many of my blogs, or listened to any of my prayer requests, you probably know that one of my struggles has always been to let go and trust. Now, don’t get me wrong. I can trust with the everyday stuff. I don’t struggle knowing that God will take care of us from day to day. However, it seems like no matter how many battles and victories I have seen, I still hesitate when it comes to the big stuff.

Maybe you struggle with the same thing. I don’t handle change well, just ask my husband about that. I analyze and over analyze things that I know will cause big changes. It is my Achilles heel. Deep down, I know that God always works the big stuff out. Honestly, He works it out better than I could ever imagine. I just struggle to let go.

So many stories throughout the Bible point out to me my lack of trust. One of those stories that I have really been thinking a lot about is the one about Moses’ mother in Exodus 2. “About this time, a man and woman from the tribe of Levi got married.  The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw that he was a special baby and kept him hidden for three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she got a basket made of papyrus reeds and waterproofed it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in the basket and laid it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile River.” Exodus 2:1-3 NLT

I wish so much that there was more in scripture about her. It doesn’t even mention her name in these verses, although it is revealed to be Jochebed later in scripture (See Exodus 6:20). I just can’t help but ask what she saw that made her know that he was a special baby? Whatever it was, it made her defy the Pharaoh, who had ordered all male babies be killed by throwing them into the Nile river (See Exodus 1:22), by hiding her baby for 3 months until she could not longer keep him hidden. It was at that point she did something that I am not sure I could have done as a mother of a 3 month old. She prepared a basket and placed him in the very river that he was supposed to be killed in. Her faith is incredible in doing that! I want so badly to know about the inner turmoil she was dealing with when she placed him in the basket. The fact that she waterproofed the basket shows that she had faith the God would protect her baby boy. If you know the end of the story you will know that Moses ended up being raised in the household of the very man who wanted him killed, by the Pharaoh’s own daughter, and eventually went on to save the Israelites.

I imagine that Jochebed never even imagined what God had in store for her little boy. All she had in mind was his survival, even if it was in someone else’s home. However, that single scary act of faith saved an entire nation. I truly believe that God wants to do the same things in our life. He wants to take those frustrating, scary, and seemingly impossible situations and use them for His purposes. He knows what we are going through. For whatever reason, he also allows those situations to happen. Nothing is wasted in the Kingdom of God. Romans 8:18 (NIV) tells us, “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.” Was that ever true for Jochebed! So many blessings came through her. Not only did Moses survive, but as it turns out, he came right back to Jochebed for a time and she got to nurse him until he was old enough to take back to the palace. If you haven’t read the story through the lense of Jochebed, I encourage you to look at it from her perspective and see all the miracles that only God could have created. Her only job was to step out and put the baby in the basket!

So, I challenge you (and me), regardless of what challenge you are dealing with: PUT THE BABY IN THE BASKET!