WOMEN FULFILLING GOD'S WILL

WOMEN FULFILLING GOD’S WILL

BY DR. MERVYN ABREO

MARY, JESUS’ MOTHER: Walked in utter obedience to the Lord. When the angel told her that she will be with child, she blindly accepted. 
(Luke 1: 29 – 34). 

          Imagine, even today, a fourteen year old unmarried girl pregnant with child. And she experienced it two thousand years ago.

ESTHER: Mordecai, King Xerxes’ adviser, had managed to get the king to sign an edict to have all the Jews annihilated!

          But Esther, at the risk of her own life, went uninvited into the presence of the king and convinced him, not only have Mordecai killed, but to reverse the edict and allow the Jews to avenge themselves on their enemies who had sought to destroy them.

RUTH: Leaving the security of her family she opted to go with her mother-in-law, Naomi to an unknown land to dwell with strange people who worshiped a God unknown to her.

          But in faith she declared to Naomi, “Your people will be my people, and your God my God” (Ruth 1: 16). She was wedded to Boaz, and their offspring became one of the ancestors of Christ Jesus.

SHIPHRAH AND PUAH: Were the two midwives at the time when Moses was born. Because the Israelites, as slaves in Egypt, grew in numbers and strength, the Pharaoh commanded them to kill all the male babies.

           But, out of reverence to the Lord, they disobeyed, thereby saving many babies, including Moses. And God rewarded them, by giving them families of their own! (Exodus 1: 15 – 21).

 MOSES’ MOTHER AND SISTER: Because of the edict to kill all male babies, Moses’ mother hid him. But when he was three months old, and couldn't hide him anymore, she got a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. She put the child into the basket and placed it among the reeds along the bank of the river Nile.

          The Pharaoh’s daughter, while bathing in the river, spotted the basket. Moses’ sister, who had been instructed to keep an eye on the child, offered to get a woman to nurse the child. Moses’ mother nursed the child and when he grew up was adopted by the daughter of Pharaoh. (Genesis 2: 1 – 10).

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