Moses & Me Devotions for Boys by Glenn Hascall

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Welcome to MOSES & ME Devotions

for Boys!

Turn these pages and you’ll read words. Those words will take you on an adventure in the life of Moses. He was a special boy. He was God’s chosen leader. He was a man of miracles and the friend of God. Moses worked to make things right and spent enough time remembering God’s goodness that he found it hard not to be thankful.

You have lots of dreams. Some are big and others you’ll probably finish before your next meal. Are any of them God’s dreams? That’s a question Moses wanted to know the answer to. His big dreams were always given to him by God. Moses was a leader who followed, an important man who always knew that God was most important.

Keep turning the pages. Keep reading! There’s more to learn on a great adventure. That adventure starts today.

A SPECIAL BOY

THE WIGGLY GIGGLER

A man of the family of Levi married a daughter of Levi. She was going to have a baby, and she gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was beautiful, she hid him for three months. E xodus 2:1–2 nlv

You were once a baby. You wiggled. You giggled. Everything was new. You stuffed things in your mouth. You probably don’t remember any of that.

What if parents didn’t want people to notice their baby? God tells a story in the Bible about parents who called their baby “beautiful.” Then they did something strange. They hid that baby for three months. If they loved him, why would they hide him?

Here’s why. The king (called Pharaoh) didn’t want his slaves, the Hebrews, to have baby boys. It didn’t even make a difference to him if their parents thought they were beautiful. So this baby boy was hidden from the king. His parents hid him to keep him from harm.

God thinks you’re pretty special. He wants to protect you. He loves you and cares more for you than anyone else can. There are jobs you can do now and some you can do as you grow up. God can help you get there. And He will.

You love me, Lord. You want the best for me. Help me trust You with every new adventure. With You, my story keeps getting better.

THE MINI BOAT

When [Moses’ mother] could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, and covered it with slime and with pitch, and put the child in it. And she laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

E xodus 2:3–4 skjv

Have you ever ridden on a boat and felt the rocking as the waves pushed the sides?

Maybe the baby boy in today’s story felt the same thing. He was just a few months old. As he grew he became too big to hide.

This baby boy was placed in a mini boat made from a basket. You can be certain his family was praying for him. His sister even watched nearby to see what would happen.

The baby’s family knew someone famous often came to the river. She could be used by God to save the baby. They just had to wait for her to come.

Maybe you’ve had to wait when you wanted something right away. You didn’t want to wait, but you didn’t have a choice. Waiting is hard. God is good. He’s always worth the wait. Remember: someone famous wants to know how you handle the wait.

Help me learn to wait, God. I need to remember that You’re never late and everything You do for me is very good.

THE BETTER ANSWER

Then the daughter of Pharaoh came to. . .the Nile. . . . She saw the basket in the tall grass. . . . She opened it and saw the child.

E xodus 2:5–6 nlv

Miriam, the baby’s sister, watched over him. She wanted to protect her brother in the basket.

A curious princess found the tiny floating boat. She knew she had found one of the boys her father, Pharaoh, didn’t want to live. But she saved the baby.

Miriam came to Pharaoh’s daughter and asked if she needed someone to take care of the baby. Yes, she did. The baby, unwanted by Pharaoh, would go back home to his own family. Who made that happen? God did. This baby was born at a bad time. Bad things were happening and people were hurt. Who knew? God did. But this boy was born because God planned to use him to bring help. Who needed that? Everyone did.

God knows that not everything is perfect and not everyone will be kind. That just means you need the same help that baby’s family needed when they placed him in a basket on the river.

This boy was starting an incredible journey. Did it make sense to trust God? Yes, it did.

Sometimes things happen that I never expect, Father. When they do, I want to remember that You bring good and make even bad things better.

THE TRAINING BEGINS

The child grew, and [his mother] brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and she said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

E xodus 2:10 skjv

There’s a name you didn’t read yesterday, the day before that, or even on the very first day of this adventure. That name is Moses. He was the hidden baby found by Pharaoh’s daughter. She gave Moses the name we remember him by. His name meant “drawn from the water” because the princess pulled him out of the river.

Moses was a baby with a very unusual story. This story wasn’t what his family wanted. It wasn’t what Moses wanted. They didn’t want to be separated. But Moses grew up and lived in a palace while his real family lived nearby. God knew Moses would need to know what the palace was like if he was going to do the special work the Lord wanted him to do.

God has a plan for you too. Even when things you don’t expect happen, God is preparing you for something. Be patient. It’s going to be great.

When I don’t understand what’s happening, that’s when I need to remember this story, God. Help me remember that bad things don’t mean You aren’t making things better.

CHOSEN LEADER

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