“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…”  Exodus 2:3

In Genesis chapter 2, Moses was born to two Levites (Priests). An edict had gone out from the Pharaoh demanding every male baby born to a Hebrew girl be thrown into the Nile. This is the first recorded genocide. I love Moses’ mother’s response when she saw Moses for the first time, the Amplified Bible says, “She thought he was exceedingly beautiful.” I had three boys, and I get it, I thought mine were exceedingly beautiful, too. But there was something exceptional about Moses from birth, he was special. His mother hid him as long as she could and then had to place him in the Nile, as was required, or they both may have been killed. She engineered a basket and made it waterproof with tar and pitch, and placed the baby in the reeds where Pharoah’s daughter was known to bathe. I can’t imagine what she must have felt as she placed him in the water and walked away from him.

There were many dangers in the Nile: you may think crocodiles, and that was a danger, but there were also hippopotami, dangerous snakes, swift currents (which could have caused him to drown), and the river was known at the time to be very dangerous due to raw sewage. I imagine Moses’ mother must have been nauseous with worry. 
 Pharoah’s daughter discovered Moses, and hired his mother to nurse and care for him, thanks to the watchful eye of his big sister Meriam who orchestrated the whole thing.

Moses grew up in Pharoah’s house as a son to him. Moses was firmly placed in the palace when in Exodus 2:23-25, “…and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel and God knew.”

Moses, the one God would call to save His people, was already in place when the people called out for help. When you consider all The Lord had to put in place to position Moses to lead His people out of slavery and bondage, we should realize that God hears our cries for help, too. And just as He worked ahead of the children of Israel’s cries for help, He does the same for you and me. 

Jeremiah 32:17 says, “Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm, and there is nothing too hard or You.”

The Lord is faithful to take care of all our needs; He was faithful to Moses, and He is faithful to you, also. And nothing is too difficult for Him. You don't need to know the answer to your problem to pray, just say "help." Just as in Exodus when the children of Israel cried out, scripture says, "and God knew." God knows how to help you, too.