Acts 7:1-38
There is no good break point in this chapter short of reading the entire chapter. Breaks at verse 34, 36 and 38 are all reasonable. Or read on to the end…!!
At this time Moses was born; and … Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. (vv. 20-21) I am thinking of the action of Pharaoh’s daughter here, how her actions not only saved Moses from death but also brought him up in Pharaoh’s house and set him on a much different trajectory for the rest of his life than would have been his life had he remained a simple Israelite boy. As a parallel I was thinking of people who had a profound influence in my life. I can name three in particular and each of them came as an “accidental” introduction to me. The first was the professor in my first Economics course, a course that I took at random during the summer semester that I was graduating with my B.S. degree. He gave me a love for economics when I had no idea what economics was all about! The second was the first person who hired me to teach a college course – I met him in a Bible Study group, the first Bible Study group that I was a part of. Even then it was only in our prayer time together that we connected with his need and my academic background. Finally the third was the person who became my dissertation advisor. He was an agricultural economist and I was an economics major – I read about him in our campus newspaper, went to meet him, took his course and lateraled into Ag Econ. All three of these “mentors” were unplanned, “accidental” encounters that led me down the road to my professional path. But looking back I know that God’s hand was in all three encounters, gently guiding me to where He would have me serve Him as a professor. Pharaoh’s daughter “accidentally” discovered Moses and as they say, “the rest is history”!
See also: January 24 / Acts 7:1-8; January 25 / Acts 7:9-16; January 26 / Acts 7:17-29; January 27 / Acts 7:30-36