A Mother’s Sacrificial Love:
Jochebed Saves Moses from Death
Scripture to Read: Exodus 2:1-10
The name of the woman who gave birth to Moses, Israel's great deliverer, only appears two times in the Bible. We have to go to Exodus 6:20 to learn that her name was Jochebed, who married Amram and had three children while Israel was still in Egypt. Moses was the youngest, after Miriam and Aaron, and his mother knew there was something very special about this baby.
So Jochebed defied the Pharaoh's order to kill all male Hebrew babies by making a basket for Moses and waterproofing it with a tar-like pitch. She then set him afloat in the Nile River and sent his sister Miriam to watch him. God honoured Jochebed's courageous act by causing Moses to be found by Pharaoh's daughter, who hired Jochebed as his nurse! While the Pharaoh was trying to destroy his Hebrew slaves, their deliverer was being raised in his own palace.
We are reminded every day of how mothers in the Holy Land will sacrifice all for their children to have a better life than they have lived. Destitute mothers will work tirelessly to make ends meet just to ensure that their children have food to eat and a bed to sleep in. But with your compassionate heart, The Fellowship can offer lifesaving assistance by providing food, medical care and clothing to the neediest of souls.
