The word tells us that we must be fruitful and multiply
(Genesis 1), but what about those who are barren. As people of faith we pray
for the barren. A simple prayer of faith that is left in the hands of the one
who can open up the most infertile womb and bring forth life.
Let’s look at the mother of many nations. Sara a woman of
old age was promised a child. A promise that a woman today would need great
faith to even believe is possible. However, in the womb of Sara laid a seed of
promise that only God could bring to life.
We look at Leah, a woman that I have come to find of great
interest. The word tells us that because she was hated, God opened her womb.
While her sister Rachel a woman of great favor and beauty battled with the very
curse of infertility. A thing that was in dead thought to be a curse and a
thing that caused a woman to be of lesser value.
Next we have Hannah a woman of great persistence. In great
travail she prayed her promise into existence to give him back to the
priesthood. Her barren womb birthed the very man who shows us the meaning of
obedience and faith. The one who shows us what it means when God says to those
who has an ear let them hear.
And finally, my favorite barren dual. The famous Elisabeth
and Mary the mother of Jesus. Like Sara Elisabeth was a woman of old age who’s
doubting husband was made dumb at the very promise of a child. Through
Elisabeth we see the birth of the very man who paved the way for the coming of
the gospel.
Now that is a lot of impossibility made possible. Situations
that didn’t come without the sadness of infertility, worthlessness, and some
fear. I find myself intrigued by the idea of the barren womb and that beauty
that God put on the very promise of children.
A couple weeks ago
now I was praying for God to give me answers to why I was going through the
pain that I was going through. From my first diagnoses I knew that this all was
for a reason. That there was something that would come from my pain and one day
while fishing with my dad it all came. The Lord spoke in a very clearly “your
barren womb”.
Instantly I got it, I was so focused on the physical womb
and its infertility that I had lost focus on the very promise that kept me. As
the song goes, “this life is not my own, to Him I belong, I give myself, I give
myself away”. Those words to me are not just words that I love to sing, but
prayers of my very heart.
I speak in great humility as I find myself in pain today. My
natural womb may be barren, but my spiritual womb is not. The women I spoke of
before are all women who birthed great promises that were the vessels that
through the power of Jesus Christ changed their world. These women’s very
promises came with pain that only infertility can bring and Jesus could use to
show the very impossible made possible.
God’s purpose and plan for each one of us is different. As
some hold promises of the beautiful opportunity of raising up children to change
their worlds. I hold to my promise of mothering the motherless and birthing
something that can only be seen through spiritual eyes.
So I say to you today, don’t underestimate the promises of
God in your life. The beautiful purpose that you hold in what God wants for you
to do. We all have a purpose in this kingdom and all with significant value.
There is never anything worth receiving in life that is not worth fighting for.
My battle may be different than yours, but both with significant value.
I have to learn to live through chronic pain to be reminded
of the very thing that makes me who I am in the kingdom of God. This cross I
carry is painful, but that very thing that brings me pain is the very thing
that gives me purpose in this heavenly promise.
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