Created 8/21/2009
Have you ever noticed that individual names are mentioned a lot in the Holy Scriptures? Not just family names, but individual names as well. I have always referred to the mother of Moses as “the mother of Moses”. How about you? I was reminded this past week by the Scriptures that she had a name and it was: Jochebed. This is recorded for us in Exodus 6:20a, and the relationship to Moses and Aaron is restated in verse 26. Let’s look at these verses: “And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses…These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.” Individual names matter to God, and I pray that individuals will also matter to us.
