Protected

Protected from birth.

At your delivery, chosen to deliver.

I have kept you hidden on purpose, for my purpose, to accomplish all that I have promised.

“Hush my child” they said, for great evil was near, the evil one sought you out.

You saw the spotlight, the search light, the enemy seeking you out.

For the Pharoah sought to take your life.

Kept in the dark, isolated, in hiding, hidden from sight.

Yet I too had sought you out, I chose you first, I found you first.

The isolated, the rejected, the excluded, the exiled, the outcast, the one cast out.

My first choice, my desire, my anointed, my deliverer.

I have sought you out. I have elected you, I have promoted you, I have given you power to overthrow, to cast down, to drive out, to push back.

For you shall not be swayed. For you shall be immovable. You cannot be moved.

But when you move with me, the enemy has no power, there is no obstacle, no need to say “get out my way”, for they cannot stand in your way, on my way.

For they shall be caught in my whirlwind.

For I have singled you out. No longer in the shadows, but at the forefront. The one who stares down the giant, the Pharoah. For you stand in the presence of the enemy without fear, yet they fall back with alarm.

Hebrews 11:23-29 Prompted by faith Moses, after his birth, was kept concealed for three months by his parents, because they saw how comely the child was; and they were not overawed and terrified by the king’s decree. Aroused by faith Moses, when he had grown to maturity andbecome great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, Because he preferred to share the oppression suffer the hardships and bear the shame of the people of God rather than to have the fleeting enjoyment of a sinful life. He considered the contempt and abuse and shame borne for the Christ (the Messiah Who was to come) to be greater wealth than all the treasures of Egypt, for he looked forward and away to the reward (recompense). Motivated by faith he left Egypt behind him, being unawed and undismayed by the wrath of the king; for he never flinched but held staunchly to his purpose and endured steadfastly as one who gazed on Him Who is invisible. By faith (simple trust and confidence in God) he instituted and carried out the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood on the doorposts, so that the destroyer of the firstborn (the angel) might not touch those of the children of Israel. Urged on by faith the people crossed the Red Sea as though on dry land, but when the Egyptians tried to do the same thing they were swallowed up by the sea.