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My Daily Blessing from My Daily Bible Reading
with meditations
by my mother, Poetess Gertrude Sanborn
JANUARY
20
Exodus 4:17 -- Exodus 7:14
A WIFE IS
A WIFE NO MATTER WHAT
Exodus 4:20
"AND MOSES TOOK
HIS WIFE AND HIS SONS. . .TO. . . EGYPT. . ."
I think
of Zipporah as a woman of the wilderness. She was a
shepherdess. Her skin was wind-blown and sun-scorched.
Though she was a queen of a woman, she was no pampered
palace princess. Some feel Moses’ spouse was a black
woman. Others have a contrary opinion. Moses brought her
and their son "home" to Egypt, a place she had never
been.
It was there, that she saw first hand
her husband’s mission. It was to deliver his people from
bondage. For Moses it was not a return to "pomp and
glory," but a return to rejection and ridicule. I do not
know if Zipporah knew the difficulty that would be her
husband’s job.
Many a wife has had to endure the
rebuffs that come when her husband chooses the right
path even, if rejection comes along in his coat pocket.
We should take a fresh look at this wife of the meekest
man on earth and learn from her. (ysw)
"LORD, IS IT I?"
Today, as I read the account of
the "Last Supper" and heard the disciples ask,
"Lord is it I?" I, too, wondered
about my feeble heart and feared lest, while
"looking" at others, I might also deny my Lord! If we women would look first to
our own motives and deeds,
we
would look less at others in criticism. (GGS)
And Sarah heard it in the tent door,
which was behind him. And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And
he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will
certainly return unto thee according to the time of
life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. (Genesis 18:10)
Under God's Care,
Yvonne S. Waite
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