I can only imagine the sort of fears she must have felt as she wondered – will I birth a boy or a girl? And then the baby was born and the crushing blow…it’s a boy.Ĭourageously she hid her baby for 3 months and when she could no longer hide his cries…she prepared a basket…and put her tiny newborn into it.Īnd my momma heart breaks imaging this scene – the exhaustion of 3 months nursing her newborn –trying to hide his cries, living day and night in fear…now released into the loving hands of God.Ī picture of courage in the face of fear and opposition. ![]() She was already a mother of two and now pregnant again. Oh Christian women, may we fear God only, in the midst of a dark culture and take a stand for what is right.Įxodus 1:21 says, “Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.” Moses’ Mother Had their plan been discovered, the cost may have been their lives but with a steadfast conviction, they did what was right. Is anyone else pumping their fist in the air and cheering for the midwives -yes – yes – yes! They chose life! Their bravery set into motion the deliverance of Israel! These women knew their God and trusted in Him. “ But the midwives feared God and did not do as the King of Egypt commanded them.” ~Exodus 1:17 The names Shiphrah and Puah rarely make the Sunday School version of this story but they were Hebrew midwives, commanded by Pharaoh –the King of Egypt, to kill all the baby boys as they were born. Let’s take a look at these brave women from Exodus 1 & 2. These women put a hand in the face of injustice and evil and said – No. ![]() ![]() God used these seemingly insignificant women to protect and nurture the man that God would use to deliver his people. When we think of the beginning of the story of Moses, we typically think of a baby in a basket floating on the Nile.īut as we begin our reading through Exodus, we see 5 women – in the midst of a crisis, courageously standing against the violence of the culture surrounding them.
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