Hospitality isn't Limited to Christians

 Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

5Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

7Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

8“Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9Pharaoh’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. 10When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, ^b saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

Thoughts:  Life is a bit nebulous.  Sometimes believers do stupid and wrong things, and sometimes non-believers do really great things.  It seems even silly to say, but it should be said that good is not limited to Christians.  Yet it is also true that God is able to use the good and the bad we do to achieve His purposes.  
       Here a pagan, Pharaoh's daughter, felt sorry for the crying baby.  God puts this compassion for babies in many a woman's heart.  God used it to rescue Moses and to rescue the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt. 
      In the New Testament, it says many times that Jesus "ate and drank with sinners."  The sinners invited him to eat and drink with them when the Pharisees would not.  But Jesus went with them.   Christians do not have a corner on hospitality.  But the other side of it is that when someone is hospitable toward you, you should let them be and try to answer their hospitality by being gracious and accepting their show of kindness.  So Moses' sister and mother did not hesitate to allow her brother to be raised in a pagan palace.  It not only was better than death, it was a place where Moses could get a good education, good food, and a healthy place to be.        We should rejoice in the hospitality shown to Moses and to Jesus by pagans and sinners.  We should rejoice when those who do not share our beliefs are kind to us.  Kindness does not just mean inviting others and welcoming others, it also means allowing yourself to be invited and welcomed.   When you are shown kindness, show kindness in return, and even outdo their kindness as a means to honor God.  

Prayer: Lord, give me a heart to welcome others' hospitality toward me and my family.   Let me also exceed in how I show hospitality toward others.