Jochebed

Are you speaking life into the lives of your children?  You may never know what impact your words will have on them later in life.  

When my parents drove me to college for the first time, I still remember my Dad’s words to me: “It only takes a few minutes to lose your reputation and years to repair it.”  He was sending his teenage girl to a big school, and he knew the temptations I would be faced with.  Those words have remained with me and still ring true even today.  

There is no doubt that Jochebed, the mother of Moses, also must have whispered truth into his little ear.  She was living at a time when all male children were commanded to be thrown into the Nile River.  Jochebed knew there was something special about her little baby, as she saw that he was “no ordinary child”.  To save her son from the grasp of an evil edict, she initially hides Moses for three months.  Then, she builds a basket and sends him down the Nile with his sister watching close by.  

This same river that was intended to drown him now delivered him to his destiny.  

She trusted that God had better plans for her son so she faithfully did what she could to save him...and her ingenious method worked.  In fact, it landed her a spot in the Hall of Faith in the book of Hebrews.

Moses grew up in the Egyptian palace, but he had compassion on his own people, the Israelites.  He knew he was different, and there was a special calling on his life.  

Is it possible Jochebed had anything to do with that?  Those early months of his life, he was held close to his mother.  She must have sung, prayed, and spoke life over him, not knowing if he would survive.  

Moses’ life was spared, and he was later instrumental in sparing the life of God’s people from the very Egyptians who swept him out of the water as an infant.  

Jochebed knew her son was special. We believe the same about our children and so does God.  He has a plan for each of their lives.  What are we speaking over them?  May they be words of truth and life. We never know where those words will take them.  

~Betsy