2 Risk-taking Mothers from the Bible - Happy Mother's Day!
It's approximately 1400 BC, and the Egyptian Pharoah has just commanded that all newborn sons should be cast into the river! Exodus 1:22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive." At that time, a beautiful son is born, and the mother of that son, Jochebed , could just not let him be thrown. So she took the risk of going against the orders of the Pharoah, and concealed the baby for 3 months. And then, she did throw him in the river, but with her own twist - she made a basket, placed the child in that basket and then set him out on the river Nile. What entails is an interesting survival story of baby Moses, who eventually would become a great leader and savior for Israel. Exodus 2:2, 3 So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, da...