JOCHEBED
Mother of Moses and Aaron
One of the most famous and oft-recited stories in the entire bible is that of Moses, yet his mother Jochebed is a woman of mystery because little is known of her. One of the most underappreciated mothers of all time, yet she also showed tremendous faith in God. To avoid the mass slaughter of Hebrew boys by the king of Egypt, she set her baby adrift in the Nile River, not knowing who would find her son, but knowing that a Higher Power guided the baby towards destiny. God so worked that her baby was found by Pharaoh’s daughter — and the rest is history. God used Moses and Aaron to free the Hebrew people from their 400 year bondage of slavery and take them to the promised land. Although little is written about Jochebed in the Bible, her story speaks powerfully to mothers of today.
