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the idea of her being employed by the Princess. Who was her employer?
I know what she thought. She believed that God was. She had a pious
fancy that God was speaking through the lips of that Princess and that
He was saying, "Take the child and nurse him for me and I will give
thee thy wages." She thought her child was God's child. Therefore,
she believed that it was to God, and not to the Egyptian Princess, that
she was to account at the last for the way in which she trained and
played the mother's part by her boy.

Yes, I feel confident that this mother believed that God was her real
employer. She believed that she was His minister. She believed that
she had been chosen for the task that was now engaging her. And she
was right in her belief. When God, who had great plans for Moses,
sought for some one who was to make it possible for Him to realize His
plans, whom did He choose? To whom did He commit this precious
treasure, from whose life such infinite blessings should come to the
world? He did not commit him to a heathen. He did not commit him to a
mere hired servant. He committed him to his mother. When God wants to
train a child for the achieving of the best and the highest in life He
sends him to school to a godly mother.

Now, when God chose the mother of Moses for his nurse and his teacher
He made a wise choice. The choice was wise, in the first place,
because this mother of Moses was eager for her task. She was a willing
mother. Whatever glad days may have come in her life history, I am
sure no gladder time ever came than that time when she realized that to
her was going to be given the matchless privilege of mothering her own
child. I know there are some mothers who do not agree with her. I
know there are some that look upon the responsibilities of motherhood
as building a kind of prison, but not so this immortal mother. She
looked upon her duty as her highest privilege. She entered upon her
task with an eagerness born of a quenchless love.

The choice was fortunate, in the second place, because she was a woman
of faith. In the letter to the Hebrews we read that Moses was bidden
by faith. Both the father and the mother of Moses were pious people.
They were people of consecration, of devotion to God, of faith in God.
It is true they were slaves. It is true they had a poor chance. It is
true they lived in a dark day when the light was dim, but they lived up
to their light. And t