Mother’s Day … A day, once a year, set aside to honor Mom!
Some Great Mother’s in Scripture:
EVE ………….… 1st Mom and called the Mother of All
Noah’ Wife ……Mother of Shem, Ham and Japhet
Sarah ……………Mother of Isaac
Hanna …………..Mother of Samuel
Elisabeth ……….Mother of John the Baptist
Mary ……………..Mother of the Lord Jesus
But let’s consider a mother who was paid to raise her own child.
Exodus 2:1-10 Her name is Jochebed … Mother of Moses.
Exodus 2:2-4 The love of a mother …not to be confused with what is happening today, where some women don’t want families … abortion runs rampant. Babies are discarded in rubbish piles, abandoned.
The key to this mother’s love is found in verse 1 .. a man took to wife, marriage .. a family (the old fashioned way).
What were this mother’s wages … a gold piece .. a few pieces of silver …food…?
Her wages were far greater … her wages were in the life of her son and in what he would become.
That’s the REAL wages of a mother.
We all are familiar of the story of MOSES:
Used by God in freeing the children of Israel from Bondage.
From Egypt, through the Red Sea, to Mount Sinai.
Deliverer of the LAW, Through 40 years of wilderness wanderings and to the promise land.
But have you ever considered:
Who taught him to love his people? Pharaoh’s daughter? …. NAY!
Who taught him to believe in God? Pharaoh? …. NAY!
Who gave him value of fellow humans, of life itself? The Egyptians? …. NAY!
It was his mother’s love…. His family.
How long did she have to teach him?
Exodus 2:10 … About 5-6 years …until he was weaned. 1 Samuel 1:23-24
How did she teach him … by loving him .. by example … by songs of love
A Mother’s Wages … Dollars … Cents?
Only time and eternity will reveal the true value of a mother.
Proverbs 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
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