Zipporah
What are the many things we can look at when we look at Moses wife Zipporah? She was given by her father to Moses in the wilderness. She was willing to follow Moses to help save the Israelites until she went back to her father . On her travels with Moses she helped save him by cutting off the foreskin of her son when Moses was wrestling with an angel and then she called Moses a bloody bridesgroom. What significance can this all mean for all of us in covenants that God created for us?
How many times do we watch others in our life wrestle with the teachings and covenants that God makes with us? Wondering day in and day out why he asks us to follow certain commandments that he has given us? Yet as we see even Moses and Zipporah knew what God asked the of the Israelites. Yet we get to see the struggle of following that commandment that was given to Moses and Zipporah probably even learned; otherwise she wouldn't have known how to stop the fight. She teaches us even in marriage we all can have struggled with covenants that we make with each other and with god. It seems as Moses was wrestling with God that both of them became conscious stricken of the covenants that were made with the Israelites and the tradition of keeping that covenant came awake. Since Zipporah felt and was inspired by the spirit what needed to be done she then circumcised her son. Declaring them than he was a bloody husband. In marriage we can learn from this experience two things that the best of us go through. The first is that each spouse to their heart. Especially us as women we sacrifice so much in our relationship that we will do what it takes to lay down our own life for our spouse. We love So much that it is hard for those around to understand why we hurt and can love So deeply unconditionally for many in our inner circle. We can also see how we can be mad at our spouse with just one word and find forgiveness.
The covenants reference of the blood ritual of cutting the foreskin can be significant. We can see how Zipporah at or up to God and defiantly accepted the tradition of circumcision. How she had that great sense of knowing why God was angered with her husband. How the knowledge of knowing to make it right even if it was being defiant. She knew God was angered over the covenant that was given to Abraham to circumcise her son. She must have realized that if he commanded that thing to be done and if he was disobedient in God's words how could he call others to follow him? If he could not obey a commandment of God how could he teach and deliver a whole nation to be delivered from the egyptians. We see so many woman like Zipporahh who serve behind the scenes to rescue their own husbands from themselves, but even truly give of themself in love. Without her we would be never gotten the rest of the story of Moses accomplishing God's will in saving israel.
Moses must have known that it would be safer for them to return to her father. She then went back home after the covenant of being a bloody husband was accomplished. Leading her to her father who in the end of delivering the Israelites returns her back to her husband with her sons. Where Moses graciously receives his family. Zipporah left her legacy in history left behind spiritual riches in defiantly understand the covenants that God placed before his kingdom. How many times do we continue on with our own covenants with sacrament, babtism, and temple ordinances do we perform them defiantly. It is when we truly come to understand the meaning behind the covenants we make with the Lord we completely come to understand why we perform or even partake of them. Think about the last time you took upon one of those ordinances defiantly like you didn't want to be there. So during the whole time of let's say the sacrament you thought why week after week am I doing this? Yet you take of it anyways to feel of the peace that the savior offers us through his grace of the atonement. When we began to understand the significance of each thing God asks us to do we can become more willing and able to teach and leave a spiritual richness to our legacy behind in our learning and living the gospel by our example. We as women can be guardians to the covenant and help raise our sins and daughters and support our husbands in developing an appreciation to the things we covenant with god.
How many times do we watch others in our life wrestle with the teachings and covenants that God makes with us? Wondering day in and day out why he asks us to follow certain commandments that he has given us? Yet as we see even Moses and Zipporah knew what God asked the of the Israelites. Yet we get to see the struggle of following that commandment that was given to Moses and Zipporah probably even learned; otherwise she wouldn't have known how to stop the fight. She teaches us even in marriage we all can have struggled with covenants that we make with each other and with god. It seems as Moses was wrestling with God that both of them became conscious stricken of the covenants that were made with the Israelites and the tradition of keeping that covenant came awake. Since Zipporah felt and was inspired by the spirit what needed to be done she then circumcised her son. Declaring them than he was a bloody husband. In marriage we can learn from this experience two things that the best of us go through. The first is that each spouse to their heart. Especially us as women we sacrifice so much in our relationship that we will do what it takes to lay down our own life for our spouse. We love So much that it is hard for those around to understand why we hurt and can love So deeply unconditionally for many in our inner circle. We can also see how we can be mad at our spouse with just one word and find forgiveness.
The covenants reference of the blood ritual of cutting the foreskin can be significant. We can see how Zipporah at or up to God and defiantly accepted the tradition of circumcision. How she had that great sense of knowing why God was angered with her husband. How the knowledge of knowing to make it right even if it was being defiant. She knew God was angered over the covenant that was given to Abraham to circumcise her son. She must have realized that if he commanded that thing to be done and if he was disobedient in God's words how could he call others to follow him? If he could not obey a commandment of God how could he teach and deliver a whole nation to be delivered from the egyptians. We see so many woman like Zipporahh who serve behind the scenes to rescue their own husbands from themselves, but even truly give of themself in love. Without her we would be never gotten the rest of the story of Moses accomplishing God's will in saving israel.
Moses must have known that it would be safer for them to return to her father. She then went back home after the covenant of being a bloody husband was accomplished. Leading her to her father who in the end of delivering the Israelites returns her back to her husband with her sons. Where Moses graciously receives his family. Zipporah left her legacy in history left behind spiritual riches in defiantly understand the covenants that God placed before his kingdom. How many times do we continue on with our own covenants with sacrament, babtism, and temple ordinances do we perform them defiantly. It is when we truly come to understand the meaning behind the covenants we make with the Lord we completely come to understand why we perform or even partake of them. Think about the last time you took upon one of those ordinances defiantly like you didn't want to be there. So during the whole time of let's say the sacrament you thought why week after week am I doing this? Yet you take of it anyways to feel of the peace that the savior offers us through his grace of the atonement. When we began to understand the significance of each thing God asks us to do we can become more willing and able to teach and leave a spiritual richness to our legacy behind in our learning and living the gospel by our example. We as women can be guardians to the covenant and help raise our sins and daughters and support our husbands in developing an appreciation to the things we covenant with god.
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