The Bible values efforts made to promote human dignity (read Hebrew 1:8 until 2:10)
Let's take a look at these brave women in the Old Testament. Ship-rah and Pu-ah are Egyptian women who made mockery of the king's order and refused to execute what their conscience condemned because of their compassion for the oppressed people. They were Hebrew midwives who received an order from the King of Egypt that when they attended Hebrew women who were in the birthstool and saw it was a boy, they must kill the baby, but to let it live if it was a girl. God blessed these intrepid women who feared God and disobeyed their king by letting the children live. Because they reverenced God, He made them mothers of families. Then there was the mother of Moses. The liberation of a nation begins with a solitary and ordinary act of a mother risking her life to save her son. Her action was a clear manifestation of a mother's love. It was the revolt of a conscience that refuses to obey an inhuman law. It was the act of faith of a mother who anticipates the wonderful future that God opens to a child being aware that children are the hope and future of her people. Because of a love of a mother the Hebrew people saw their liberation from oppression and slavery. The world today which is now invaded by the culture of death needs some Pu-ah, Ship-rah and Moses' Mom to restore a culture of life.
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