Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller and right now we're going through the Book of Exodus.

Everybody loves a good hero myth. If you go to a church with a big celebrity

pastor they'll tell you stories about how they got their church started.

If you read history, there's stories around who George Washington was and how he became who he

was, who Abraham Lincoln was, how he became who he was. And so we love these stories,

learning how someone maybe of humble origins became someone significant. And in

Exodus 2, versus 1 to 10, we read the story of Moses' birth.

And in some ways, that's exactly what we expect.

We expect to learn a hero's origins.

Where did he come from?

What made him so special?

And what's amazing about this story is that it's exactly not that.

From the very first moment that Moses is born, he really has no volition, no decision-making

power.

Moses lives because of the heroic actions of women. Now that might not

surprise us to hear something like that today in today's cultural context because

we live in a culture that is much less patriarchal, much less misogynistic than

cultures in the past, but in the ancient world women were not treated with the

same dignity, respect, and honor as men. And so it's a real shocker when the Bible

opens up and it says that not just men are made in God's image, but male and female.

Both are made in God's image.

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