Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled God in the Details was written by Tim Gustafson.

It had been an awful week for Kevin and Kimberly.

Kevin's seizures had suddenly worsened and he'd been hospitalized.

Amid the pandemic, their four young children, siblings adopted from foster care,

were taking cabin fever to a new extreme. On top of that, Kimberly couldn't scrounge up a decent

meal from the fridge. Oddly, at that moment, she craved

carrots. An hour later, there was a knock at the door. There stood their friends, Amanda and

Andy, with an entire meal she prepared for the family, including carrots. They say the devil is in the details? No, an amazing story in the

history of the Jewish people shows God is in the details. In Exodus chapter 1, Pharaoh had commanded

every Hebrew boy that is born, you must throw into the Nile.

That genocidal development turned on a remarkable detail.

Moses' mother did indeed throw her baby into the Nile, albeit with a strategy.

And from the Nile, Pharaoh's own daughter would rescue the baby whom God used to rescue his people.

She would even pay Moses' mother to nurse him.

One day, from this fledgling Jewish nation, would come a promised baby boy.

His story would abound with amazing details and divine ironies.

Most importantly, Jesus would provide an exodus out of our slavery to sin. Even, especially in the dark times, God is in the details. As Kimberly will tell you,

God brought me carrots.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 2 verses 1 through 10.

Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus

basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among

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