Joy and Responsibility.  Those two words seem to not fit together so well. right? They are definitely not synonymous.
Yet in life there are important responsibilities that are required of us that can be an absolute joy.
Children are a Joy and Responsibility.
We see this in the story of Jochebed, the hebrew slave and mother of Moses.  She looked at the child and declared the joyous Hebrew word TOWB (tōve). She risked everything for the responsibility of motherhood.  This child was her joy and responsibility.
But in life there are responsibilities too great for us to manage.  What are we to do in such situations?  Where can we turn?
When you are overwhelmed by the responsibility in your hand, you need to remember that YOU are in God’s hands. You are God’s Joy & responsibility. He wants to be all the help you need.

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Mother’s Day – The Joy and Responsibility
Sermon notes by Pastor Chris Fluitt
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Welcome to Redemption Church! Happy Mother’s Day!  My name is Chris Fluitt. I am lead pastor here at Redemption Church and I am so glad to be with you… and also all our friends out there on the internet through podcasts and social media platforms. God bless you all.
Today is mother’s day.  Have you wished your mom a happy mother’s day? Please do contact her today.
Please open your Bibles with me to Exodus 2.
Exodus 2:1 Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman,(NIV)
Exodus 2:2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months.(NIV)
Exodus 2:3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.(NIV)
Exodus 2:4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.(NIV)
Exodus 2:5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the river bank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.(NIV)
Exodus 2:6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.(NIV)
Exodus 2:7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”(NIV)
Exodus 2:8 “Yes, go,” she answered. And the girl went and got the baby’s mother.(NIV)
Exodus 2:9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.(NIV)
Exodus 2:10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”(NIV)
I want to talk to you today about…
Joy and Responsibility
If you are like me, the words joy & responsibility don’t seem to go together. They are not synonymous terms. In fact they seem disagreeable to each other.  But the truth is that God has called us into some joyous responsibilities.  Tasks that are very important but at the same time a joyous gift.
Children are a joy
In our scripture reading in Exodus 2 we learned of a birth of a boy.
The Bible describes the boy as a “fine child” in verse 2.  This English translation is easy to gloss over.  But you may find it interesting that the word is…
Towb (tōve)
It means good, beautiful, pleasant, precious, glad, best…  It is the word used in these very familiar creation passages.