Exodus 2: God in the Reeds

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 the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
“Yes, go,” she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”  -Ex. 2:3-10 NIV


When we think of Moses, we tend to let the story of the burning bush overshadow the story of Pharaoh's  daughter finding the infant Moses floating in a basket where he had been hidden.  Which is the most miraculous?  Both events were orchestrated by God and were a necessary part of the story of the Israelites being led out of Egypt.  There are no accidents in Gods kingdom.  There are no accidents in our lives.  God uses it all, even something as simple as saving the life of a child, to further his purposes. Most of us are looking for God in the burning bush, when we should be looking for God in the ordinary.  He might be lurking in the water among the reeds.