Growth In Egypt

“But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous so that the land was filled with them.” – Exodus 1:7 CSB

A human baby spends nine months in the mother’s womb before entering the world. An elephant spends nearly two years in the womb! The womb is a place of safety, comfort, growth, and development. But when there is no more room to grow, the water breaks and the baby comes forth.

Israel entered Egypt as a family of seventy people. Four hundred years later, they would leave as a nation of more than two million. In Egypt, Israel grew in safety and relative comfort. As Pastor David Guzik said in his commentary, “Egypt was like a womb.” I like that. God sent a family to Egypt to preserve them during a famine, and He used that place as a safe haven for them to grow and mature into a nation.

Many times in our lives, the Lord keeps us in a place for a season to do the same with us to grow us and develop us. When we have matured in that “womb” where He has placed us, the water breaks, and it is time to move on. It is important that we do not despise small beginnings (Zechariah 4:10). God is using the place where He has you right now to do a work in you. When the time is right, He will send you forward. Until then, embrace where you are it is by divine design.

Agape, Frank