Exodus 1:15-16 Then the king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, “When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth, look at the child when you deliver it. If it’s a boy, kill it, but if it’s a girl, let it live.”
However, the midwives feared God and didn’t obey the king of Egypt's orders. They let the boys live.
WOW!
I personally didn’t remember the midwives as part of Moses’ story. In my mind it went straight to his mother hiding him for a while and then putting him in the river as the beginning of his story.
Yet here are these 2 forgotten women who helped bring him into the world. Who out of fear of God didn’t kill him or any of the other little boys that they assisted in delivering.
Now the fear that they had wasn’t “We better not do this or God is going to smight us and burn us to dust.” It was a fear out of reverence, honour, respect.
They knew God wouldn’t want them to and their reverence for Him outweighed the possibility of death itself to honor Him.
WOW!
They remind me of Jesus.
Luke 22:42 “Father, if it is your will, take this cup of suffering away from me. However, your will must be done, not mine.”
Did Jesus want to experience the weight and condemnation of all of our sins, fully knowing what it would be like? Did the midwives want to die? Did they choose the fear of those things to outweigh their reverence for God? For His plan?
I’m so thankful for Jesus! For His bravery and commitment. For His example of respecting and honoring God. For what He has done for us.
May we not forget that He is our King and why we want to worship and bow down to Him. And from that may we live our lives honoring Him.
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