TRUE Jochebed: An Example Of A Godly Mother

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On a mother’s day it is only fitting to consider the example of this godly mother taken from the pages of the book of Exodus
Join me as we together look at this godly mom
• She was a godly woman
God had great plans for Moses, and when he was looking for someone to help fulfill His plans, who did He choose? He committed him to his own mother. Moses' parents were individuals who were true to God at a time when many of their contemporaries were turning away from Jehovah These are the kind of women whom God can use to produce men that He can use.
• She inherited a vision of of what He had appointed for her child
Three times over we read that “she saw that he was a goodly child” (Exodus 2:2; Acts 7:20; Hebrews 11:23)
As the little one lay in her lap, Jochebed felt that he was a goodly child .Notice very carefully this verse “goodly child “because it was the key to a number of things that were true in the life of Moses. This statement that she made was very significant …show more content…

Yet she was able to see him as a child that God was going to use.Looking at our children even when they misbehave or go wayward, are we able to say like jochebed… WE SHOULD!!! Cause there is power in our thoughts and words!!
• She was a woman of faith
Insight into the heart of Jochebed may be gleaned from Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents. –
Pharaoh’s decree, one of Satan's early efforts to prevent the birth of the Messiah by attacking the Jewish race, must have been a tremendous test of Jochebed's faith.Imagine her feelings when the child was born and the midwife told her it was a boy? What maternal grief must have been

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