Meaningful Life
Date: May 13, 2024
Exodus 2:1-10
1 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket[a] 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. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
5 Then 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. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
7 Then 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. 9 Pharaoh’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. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
Bible Reading: Exodus 2:1-10
Sermon Topic: Motherhood of Courage
Take Home Point: ”Stand firm, Keep the faith, and Trust in God’s plan for your future.”
Yesterday, across the United States of America and Canada, we celebrated Soldiers in every country of the world bear on their shoulders the act of bravery as they risk their lives on the battlefield trying to protect us and our great country. For these reasons, we call them heroes. Who is a hero? A writer described a hero as “Someone who has changed the course of a life, event, or has gone above and beyond the average person and changed outcomes that would otherwise have been disastrous.” Today, I want to introduce us to some heroes in our service today, they are our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters. I want to give a shout out to y’all Happy Mother’s Day. We love you.
Today, I want us to look at the story of a woman who had to make one of the most difficult decisions of motherhood in giving up her son and her courageous faith in God. The story of Jochebed Moses’ mother. Indeed, this woman truly lived out her name, Jochebed means Jehovah glorified. Jochebed’s story brought Glory to God.
Her courage in the face of life’s challenges led to her son Moses fulfilling God’s divine plan for his life as he eventually grew up to become the man that God used in fulfilling His liberation plan for the nation of Israel.
What can we learn from Jochebed:
1. Surrender to God’s Divine Providence: She surrendered completely to God’s divine providence not out of fear but of the assurance that God would show up for her son.
2. Jochebed Trusted God: Our faith in God sometimes makes us to think out of the box. It makes us take some bold steps as we face life’s challenges. The lesson for us today is that we must trust God and His plans for us, and our loved ones.
3. Her Blind Faith: Our text on the testimony of Jochebed is a great reminder that God’s attention and watch light is always on us. This story encourages us to look way beyond our life struggles and to trust God’s master plan for our future.
4. Godly Parent: I believe in the few years that Jochebed nursed Moses before returning him to Pharaoh’s daughter, she must have trained Moses in the way of the Lord. She sowed in him the seed of faith in God that saw him through the struggles of life. Proverbs 22:6 reads; “train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
I urge mothers, and everyone in general to stand firm, keep the faith, and trust in God’s plan for your future.
I wish y’all a Meaningful Week.
Pastor David Kachi Jite