Vital, Yet Overlooked
This morning I was reading a chapter in Exodus
and saw something that had never stood out to me before.
Pharaoh is the name everyone remembers.
The power.
The cruelty.
The decree.
But tucked inside the story of Moses, beneath all the power and spectacle,
are two women most of us overlook.
Without their faithfulness, there would not have been a story to tell at all.
Shiphrah and Puah
They weren’t leaders.
They didn’t command influence.
They weren’t trying to make a statement.
They were midwives.
Pharaoh ordered them to kill Hebrew baby boys at birth.
A firm command.
No excuse for not obeying.
Scripture says they feared God more than the king.
So they refused.
Because of that refusal, children lived.
Because those children lived, Moses lived.
Because Moses lived, history turned.
Pharaoh’s power felt absolute in the moment.
But it was ordinary people, doing faithful work, who stood in its way.
That detail stays with me.
Evil rarely collapses because of loud resistance.
More often, it collapses when someone decides they will not participate.
Most faithfulness goes unnoticed.
It isn’t praised.
It isn’t shared.
It doesn’t feel heroic.
But heaven keeps perfect record.
So today, I’m asking myself this gentle question.
Where is obedience asking me to simply stop cooperating?
Not dramatically.
Not publicly.
Just faithfully.
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