Seems like a number of people that I know have had or are having babies. It is a joyous time for sure. Some of them have chosen to know the sex of the baby and a couple have been firm about not wanting to know before hand. Technology will tell you a lot these days - is it a boy or girl? Is the child going to be healthy?
And the Lord said to her.
Psalm 100:3 Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Isaiah 49:1 Listen to me, O coast lands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.
Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
In my Bible study this week we were looking at another pregnant woman.
Genesis 25:21. Rebekah the wife of Isaac was pregnant. This pregnancy had been prayed for. "And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived".
Now Rebekah was very uncomfortable because we are told "the children struggled within her". Who better to go to than The Creator Himself. "So she went to inquire of the Lord." vs22
“Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided;
the one shall be stronger than the other,the older shall serve the younger.” vs23.
the one shall be stronger than the other,the older shall serve the younger.” vs23.
She was bearing twins, more than that she had 2 nations in her womb. Two nations that were going to very divided.
I wonder how she reacted. The Lord had promised and He had delivered His promise. Even before they were born, God had His plans and their future under His sovereign control.
Got me thinking of how many times the Bible tells us that God is the Creator and that He knows us intimately. The world systems will have us believe that we have control over our destinies.
When you go through a trial, you realize that you have no control over your life and it is so much easier to submit and trust the One who knows the beginning from the end.
He has the whole world in His Hands loved one.
Psalm 139:13-16 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
Job 33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
When you don't know what the future holds, trust the Only One who does. remember It is He who made you. You are His. He formed you and knitted you in your mother's womb. He has the days of your life numbered. His breath gives you life. Trust the Hand of the Potter as He shapes and moulds you after His Son Jesus.
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