DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 7 September 2025: The Triumph of Faith
KEY VERSE: “And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.” – (Exodus 2:2).
READ: Exodus 2:1-4 (KJV)
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
Once, a traveller came to the Mississippi River in those early days and discovered there was no bridge. Fortunately, it was winter and the great river was thickly frozen over with sheets of ice. But the traveller was afraid to trust himself to it, not knowing how thick it was. Finally, with great caution, he crept on his hands and knees and managed to get halfway over. And then he heard singing from behind. Cautiously he turned, and there, out of the dusk, came another traveller, driving a four-horse load of coal over the ice, singing with confidence as he went!
Moses was born at a difficult time in Egypt when Pharaoh planned a systematic ethnic cleansing of the Hebrews. He told the Hebrew midwives to kill every newborn male child at the point of delivery but they refused for fear of God. When Pharaoh saw that the midwives declined his evil order, he issued a new one, that all male children born to the Hebrews should be thrown into the River Nile. It was at this time, Moses was born. Together with her husband, Moses’ mother hid her precious baby for three months, not fearing the decrees of Pharaoh and the wickedness of the Egyptians. Her faith was honoured as her child was saved and raised by the same system that threatened his birth. He grew up to become the deliverer of the Hebrews from Egyptian bondage.
God works with men to fulfil His purposes on earth. While the wicked contrive the ruin of the Church, God is preparing for her salvation. Moses’ parents saw he was a good child. The gospel we preach is good news. Like Moses’ parents, we should trust, pray, and jealously cling to the Bible and not allow anything to take it away from us.
Believers who exercise faith amid life-threatening situations will cross their own frozen Mississippi River with singing and rejoicing. We make ourselves irrelevant by staying in our comfort zones of life, and not undertaking any risk. To be effective as Christ’s disciples, we must brace up for all odds, and reach the dying world with the good news of salvation.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Faith wins all the time.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Psalm 101-104
Daily Manna 7 September 2025
