part 1 A Mother Bears Her Child - Exodus 2:1-2

And there went a man (Amram) of the house of Levi, and took to wife (Jochebed) a daughter of Levi.  And the woman conceived, and bare a son:  
 
Jochebed Bears Moses

Jochebed is not named in the story of Moses’ birth and in the adventure of his being a fugitive and an outlaw even before he was old enough to walk or talk. We know her name from
 

Exodus 6:20 and Numbers 26:59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
 

We don’t have too many girls named after Jochebed, like we do Mary, Ruth or Elizabeth. Her name is not common in the scriptures, but I’m glad we know it because there is more to her name than just the way it sounds. Jochebed’s name means “The Lord Is Glory.”
 

Now we don’t have names like that anymore, we don’t care what a name means only what it sounds like. For awhile everyone wanted a unique name for their children. Celebrities are goofy in most situations but they are certifiably insane when it comes to naming their kids. Here are a few examples.
 

A certain famous singer named her child, Diezel Ky, she named his brother Denim. What about Kal-El, yes that is the name of superman before he came to earth. Buddy Bear, Bluebell Madonna, Fifibelle and Apple are names not nicknames that celebrities have actually written down on children's birth certificates.
 

If you don't like those may you'll like Tu, first name, Morrow second name. One child is named North, another Sunday and one was named Jermajesty. And Nevaeh is pretty cool it is actually ‘Heaven’ spelt backwards.
 

But in the Old Testament names were given that almost always acknowledged or praised God. And Jochebed would live up to the name her parents gave her. Jochebed’s actions as a mother and protector of Moses would show “The Lord is Glory!”
 
The Maternal Instinct

It goes without saying that a mother is a woman who has had a child. The first woman that God created was named Eve, her name is the Hebrew word Hawwa or Chavvah which means “life-giver.”
 

There is no greater gift that God has given to his highest creation than the ability to bear a child. In the old testament, having a child was the epitome of womanhood. This is why the gift of childbirth in old age such as Sarah in Genesis and Elizabeth in the Gospel, was such a blessing.
 

Though there is no sin or shame if a woman or a couple cannot bear children, but there is always a blessing when they can. This is part of the design of God for man and woman. One of the reasons He put man and woman together in marriage.
 

Genesis 1:27-28 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
 

God repeated this after the flood to Noah and his family inn Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Just to make sure they got the message He repeats it only 6 verses later in Genesis 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
 

In our world however the purpose and design of God is under severe attack. Mothers are looked down upon, second class citizens, who aren’t smart enough, or have enough self-esteem to be something more than a mother. Women are no longer defined by their God designed biology but as anything the sin-sick, fallen world wants to call a woman.
 

For decades the feminists of this world have told young girls and anybody else who would listen that being a wife and mother is the same as being a slave. If that was not damaging enough, the activists of this day and age are trying to tell us that womanhood and manhood are both by your choice or if you don’t want to choose either then you can just be something called non-binary. Isn’t that great to be a non, a nothing instead of what God gifted and created us and especially women to be.
 

All of this is loudly and violently proclaimed as personal freedom, but in reality it is the worst kind of slavery. The slavery of debauchery and sin. It is the bondage that comes from rejecting God’s design for woman and the purpose of marriage.

But a mother’s role does not end with bearing a child. The real part of motherhood is next as we see so dramatically illustrated in the life of Jochebed, showing the Lord is Glory by protecting her child.