There’s a verse in Psalm 22 that screams of God’s cooperative venture with women!
“You are He who brought me forth from the womb; You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts. Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother’s womb.” [vs.9-10 NASB]
After Travis’ death, I wrote a blog article titled, “A Mother’s Grief” that runs parallel to what I’m sharing here. If you’d like to read it: Hal-lelujah!: A Mother's Grief
God cooperates with the woman who brings a child into this world! God arranged for the process that creates children – it was God’s plan! Regardless of what you hear from the WOKE movement, men don’t have wombs!
Another David psalm [#139] records: “For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.” [vs.13-16 NASB]
What an intimate venture between God, a woman, and her husband – but especially between God, the woman and her child(ren)!
She ‘houses’ that forming infant during its most delicate moments, days, and months! She shelters it! She is its protector – night and day, 24/7. She becomes aware of its presence fairly early! She develops a relationship with that child LONG before it is ever born! It draws its sustenance directly from her body!
Her influence in those earliest days – and then after birth – will NEVER be equaled by anyone else!
I hope you see from this how significantly God has honored women through this potential! There is nothing that compares to it!
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However, when a child dies before its mother – which should never happen – no one will suffer more than the mother! Whether death comes from war, suicide, accident, sickness, natural catastrophe or an act of violence – it will affect her more than anyone! She will literally FEEL the loss! Even if that child never gets to enter this world, the mother will FEEL the loss at a deep, deep level! Inconsolable grief! Pain! The deepest sense of loss!
And the greatest source of comfort for her – next to the arms of her husband – will be the arms of God! He who shared the deepest intimacy of this process will also feel her pain and HE WILL RESPOND TO IT!
If you’re feeling that pain today, turn to God – no one understands like He does! He’s been with you in this venture since the moment of conception – AND HE CARES!
