Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, ‘because’, she said, ‘I drew him out of the water.’”
NL Daily Devotion for Tuesday, September 24, 2024
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Water is important in two parts of this story. First, Moses is saved from infanticide by being hidden on a river and then found and adopted by an Egyptian princess. Then, after fleeing Egypt for Midian, Moses sits by a well where a group of women is attacked while trying to draw water. He not only drives their attackers away, but helps water their flocks at the well. As a result, the women’s father takes him in and gives him one of his daughters for a wife. He is drawn out of the water, and then he draws water, and in each case, the result is his life and livelihood.
Water is life, literally and metaphorically. It is Spirit. It is rebirth. It is flourishing. As you read and reflect on this story today, take some time to think about where and how water has played a part in your own life.
Do I see water as a generally mundane thing? Or as something miraculous?
