Jochebed


Her name means The Lord is Glory.

Her fierce love for her son, coupled with her faith, enabled her to act heroically in the midst of great oppression, despite her life in bondage as a slave, because God not only preserved the son she surrendered to him but also restored her child to her.

(Exodus 2:1-10, Hebrews 11:23.)

(Women of the Bible: A One-Year Devotional Study by Ann Spangler & Jean E. Syswerda, 2015.)