When the daughter of Pharoh saw the babe and took compassion on him, she called his name Moses, that is, "drawn out", or "saved from the water"; and "drawn out" was the characteristic of his whole life afterwards. He was drawn out of the waters of death, to be trained as a king's son. When he was grown up, he was drawn out by God from his worldly home and surroundings to a desert life alone with Him, and later on he was drawn out from his seclusion to be God's instrument for leading Israel out of Egypt. He was afterwards drawn out from the active work of the camp to the Mount of God, for closer fellowship with Him, and finally drawn out of the world altogether in the bosom of the Eternal. Jessie Penn Lewis Face to Face Lewis goes on in the next few paragraphs, about Moses was given back to his old home and the old keeping. "It is so with us, we pass out of death into life, and become children of God; but for a little season, we are left in the old surroundings, because it is not time for us to know our high calling, and the discipline needed for the heirs of God." Let us learn to wait on God and on his divine grace. Let us learn to rest in the will of God, sometimes with much sobbing and tears, until we know the His pattern for our life. Let us not, in our impatience, throw aside the very things permitted of Him to fit us for His high calling on our life.
