What’s In Your Basket?
Submitted by Ted Mock
February 5, 2025
Ex 2:3 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.
The ark was a basket. There are other baskets in God's Word!
The little lad’s lunch in John 6 came in a basket, and I believe he went home with the twelve baskets of leftovers. Paul was let down over the wall in Damascus in a basket in II Corinthians chapter eleven. But to me, the most important basket in the Bible is the basket of God’s hand in John 10, where it says that nothing can pluck us out of His hand!
Never underestimate a mother's influence.
Everything Moses knew about God and how to worship came from his mother, and it is the duty of believing parents to teach their children about God. Jochebed did not have one scrap of written Scripture to give to Moses. She had only what had been passed down by her parents to her about God.
Clear direction is given in Deuteronomy 6 on how to raise children according the instructions given by God. Both parents have the responsibility to teach and train their children how to worship and serve the Lord. The plural pronouns "you" and "ye" are used, not just the singular "he" or "her" in this chapter.
God has always intended for Christianity to be a family affair. Men, do not abrogate your responsibility. Ladies, do not put it all in his hands. It doesn’t take a village—it takes two parents. If we are to live by faith, we must raise our children by faith.
By faith, Jochebed trusted God to save her child. We do not know if our children will make their own choice to follow God, but we can have faith that God will honor our effort.
Remember, we believe in individual soul liberty. We cannot save our children, but we do need to lead them to the well.
What did Jochebed put into her basket? She put something in it that was special—her own son. She totally surrendered him to the will of God as he floated out of sight. Satan opposed what she was doing and would have had the child die by drowning or eaten by crocodiles. But she could rest assured that her baby was safe and secure in her Father’s hand.
Something special came out of that basket, a man who would change everything for God’s people.
Consider – What’s in your basket?
