Through The Bible in a Year - February 9, 2026

“By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months…By faith Moses…chose to be mistreated along with the people of God.”* – Hebrews 11:23, 24-25

Just by chance, Moses’ mother puts him in a basket of reeds in the Nile River.

Just by chance, she places it in an inlet where Egyptian women bathes.

Just by chance, the woman who bathes that morning is Pharaoh’s daughter.

Just by chance, she’s more merciful than her father.

Just by chance, Moses’ sister is watching and suggests a Hebrew nurse.

Just by chance, it’s Moses’ actual mother who gets to nurse her own son.

Just by chance, Moses learns the ways and faith of Israel while growing up in Pharaoh’s household.

Just by chance? No. None of these things were by chance. God was working a plan.

The details seemed so minuscule. So insignificant. A baby in a basket in a patch of weeds along a river in a vast nation whose power is controlling the ancient world. But God was taking faithfulness and using it for purposes beyond what any could imagine.

At age 40, Moses flees to the desert for 40 years. What kind of plan is that? But God was preparing him. In Pharaoh’s household, Moses learned Egyptian ways, laws, and leverage—everything he’d need to free God’s people. In the desert, he learned to survive in a desperate land—exactly what theIsraelites would need to survive for the next 40 years.

God was working His plan all along. The things that seemed like chance, like waste, like tragedy—God was weaving them together for His eternal purposes.

Respond: What “just by chance” moments in your life might actually beGod’s perfect plan? Consider what seems wasted—time, opportunity, pain—and believe that can God use it all to prepare you for something far greater in his time, for his glory, and for your good.

Prayer: Sovereign God, nothing in my life is by chance. You are weaving together every moment—even the painful ones, even the ones that seem wasted—for Your purposes. Help me trust Your plan when I can’t see the purpose. You’re preparing me for something greater. I believe; help my unbelief. In Jesus’ name, amen.