2 Risk-taking Mothers from the Bible - Happy Mother's Day!

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It's approximately 1400 BC, and the Egyptian Pharoah has just commanded that all newborn sons should be cast into the river!

Exodus 1:22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

At that time, a beautiful son is born, and the mother of that son, Jochebed, could just not let him be thrown. So she took the risk of going against the orders of the Pharoah, and concealed the baby for 3 months. And then, she did throw him in the river, but with her own twist - she made a basket, placed the child in that basket and then set him out on the river Nile. What entails is an interesting survival story of baby Moses, who eventually would become a great leader and savior for Israel.

Exodus 2:2, 3 So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.

Coming over to the new testament around the time when BC and AD met, we come across another woman, Mary, who is tasked with the most important role in human history - to give birth to a child out of wedlock, and without knowing a man!

Luke 1:34 Then Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I do not know a man?"

Her reputation is at stake, her respect and position in the society are now questionable, but after listening to the angel Gabriel carefully, she took the risk. She put her trust in God and continued to trust and obey.

Luke 1:38 Then Mary said, "Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.

That's what mothers do, isn't it? They comfort you, they never forget you, they love you like no other human. She has the kind of love, that makes her take huge risks for her child. A very happy Mother's Day to every mother out there!

Isaiah 66:13 As one whom his mother comforts, So I will comfort you; And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem."

Isaiah 49:15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.



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