Jochebed's name is only mentioned twice in the entire Bible (Exodus 6:20; Numbers 26:59), but thirty-three hundred years after her death, she is still remembered as one of the great mothers of all history.
A mother can do nothing higher than instill her own wisdom and faith and character into her children. In Moses, in Aaron, and in her daughter Miriam, Jochebed did just this. A truly creative mother must be an authentic teacher. Jochebed had taught Miriam well. The seven-year-old Hebrew slave child conducted herself with amazing maturity and poise before the Pharaoh's daughter.
It seems to me that no one should be surprised at Moses, Aaron and Miriam - all three outstanding human beings. Look at their mother! And the more we study Jochebed, the more evident it becomes that mothers mark their children one way or another. [Jochebed} made full, creatve use of her imagination, as well as her practical mind, when she did not stop with merely frantic prayers to the Lord God to save her baby, Moses. She was poised even in the face of potential tragedy; she was able to quiet her inner turmoil and think clearly. The plan she devised was clever, highly imaginative - and she worked with her hands to bring it to a successful ending. Jochebed was an authentic woman of God, balanced, mature, self-controlled. Her emotions ran deep, but she was not a victim of those emotions. God was her Master, therefore she was master of herself...
[Jochebed's] life was lived to the hilt - not sensationally, but its good effects reach us today, teaching us that a woman under God's control is a woman living her life to its highest and fullest AUTHOR: Eugenia Price
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Yes Beautiful, we must not let our emotions control us we control it. Because we have the power and authority to do so. The same power as Jochebed had we have that same power too. We must learn how to control it.