Exodus Study: The God Who Works the Unthinkable (Exodus 2:1-12)

Moses’ story opens under the shadow of Pharaoh’s decree, yet shines with the quiet courage of a Levite couple who “saw he was a goodly child” and hid him three months. By faith, Jochebed fashioned a tiny ark—woven reeds sealed with pitch—and set her baby among the reeds of the Nile. What was meant to be the river of death became the channel of deliverance. Miriam watched from a distance, poised between fear and faith, until Pharaoh’s daughter discovered the basket. The baby wept, compassion awakened, and the one household bent on Israel’s destruction became God’s unlikely shelter for Israel’s deliverer. In a providential turn, Moses’ own mother was called to nurse him—and was even paid to do it.

This is how God works the “unthinkable” to accomplish His will. He positions the right people at the right time, moves hearts that should be hard, reunites what seemed lost, and provides in ways no one could script. Acts and Hebrews remind us Moses was “exceeding fair” and “a proper child”—not merely beautiful, but marked by God for a divine purpose. Behind every detail in Exodus 2 stands a faithful God who hears, sees, remembers, and knows His people. The chapter that begins with bondage and tears already hums with the promise of deliverance and song, teaching us that faith acts, faith waits, and God’s providence never fails.