The Brilliant And The Resilient Of A Mother

When looking up the word brilliant, as an adjective it means: shining brightly; sparkling; glittering and lustrous. It tells of the brilliant lights of the city, distinguished; a brilliant performance, or haven shown great intelligence, talent, and quality, one that is vivid or bright. One that is a gem, especially a diamond, having any of several varieties of the brilliant cut.

It can also be used to describe something considered outstanding, exceptional, or magnificent. Most of all brilliant is often used in an informal way to mean excellent or awesome.

Then when I looked up the word RESILIENT: it means buoyant, strong, tough, volatile, rebounding, never giving up and consistent, and this reminds me of our mothers.  

When we look at the birth of Moses: it is a picture of a believing, courageous mother.

This is a picture of a Godly Mother, and this passage covers the birth of Moses, but it focuses upon the mother of Moses.

It tells us how she saved Moses from being killed by the king, it tells us of how she trusted God to take care of her baby boy. Moses mother was a Godly mother, a young woman who trusted God with all her heart.

When we survey the pages of human history, Godly mothers were few. When searching history it was a few Mothers who truly believe God, Godly mothers who have the courage to stand up for God and His demand for righteousness and purity.

Nevertheless, Godly mothers do exist. There are some Godly mothers that can be found. There are some mothers within every generation who have given all they are to God, who are totally committed to follow after the righteousness and purity demanded by God.

This is the subject of the present Scripture, the birth of Moses is the picture of a believing and courageous Mother who cared about her child.

In verse 1 it tells us she She was a Hebrew, of Levi's tribe: a slave of the lowest social rank and position imaginable.

And if we were to remember, Israel had probably been enslaved for a century or more, and he parents of Moses were therefore slaves when they married. This meant that both mother and father

• worked as slave-laborers, as beasts of burden.

• were abused and yelled at, they were probably beaten at the whim of slave-masters.

• were poor, even poverty-stricken.

• lived in a small, poorly furnished house or shanty.

• had few, if any, possessions to call their own.

Moses' mother had no social standing within society, no decent clothes, no possessions, no rank, and no position.

She was a slave. She worked in the brickyards or in the fields or as the servant of some wealthy Egyptian. Yet God was to use this humble mother, this enslaved woman, beyond imagination. She was to give birth to one of the greatest men who had ever lived.

Moses mother is a great example to us. That no matter how lowly or far down we are; God can still use us. God can use us no matter how bad our...

• past • present • rank • position • abilities • heritage • education or how our finances are.

If we will only do what Moses' mother did, if we would only believe God and follow after God, God will accept us and use us to bless the lives of others.  (And I know that it’s Mother’s Day, but God will use anybody that will allow him to be the head of their lives) God always uses the lowly who truly trust

and follow after Him.

In verse 2 Moses' mother was a courageous, righteous woman. At some point, she became pregnant and bore Moses. This was her third child.

Moses had one sister. There was Miriam, Moses' only sister, who was a young lady when Moses was born, probably somewhere around thirteen to sixteen years old. And then there was Aaron, Moses' only brother, who was three years older than Moses.

Notice this that the king's law to drown all newborn boys was not in effect at Aaron's birth. And as stated, he was a three-year-old boy, alive and well, when Moses was born. The law was obviously passed right before the birth of Moses.

Picture for a moment the uneasiness of Moses' parents when his mother discovered that she was pregnant. Just imagine their concern, their anxiety, their fear, and uncertainty—wondering what would happen if the child was a boy.

What would they do? What could they do? Month after month—for nine long months—they would have prayed and wondered, trying their best to figure out what they would do if the child was a boy.