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GOD; will you help?

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Isa 66:9
Do I open the womb
and not deliver the baby?
Picture this:
A woman is wheeled into the operating theatre (if you haven’t been in one before, you must have seen one in movies). She has been informed that a caesarian section would be performed on her, for which she has given written consent.
And so the obstetrician is poised for surgery. Subsequently, he makes an incision on her abdomen. Cuts through layers of skin, fat, fascia and muscles.
Finally, he locates and opens up the uterus.
Pause.
He says he cannot go on. He is tired of the surgery.
 Just too tired to go on. He wants to rest.
He removes his gloves and gown, walks out of the suite with the woman still on the table, a breached uterus with a nearly non-viable child, whose rapidly declining heart rate screams in horror, still within.
Does this make even the minutest amount of sense?
I hope not.
Because it doesn’t.


Isa 66:9
Do I open the womb
and not deliver the baby?
Sometimes, through our actions and words, we show that this is what we believe God would do to us, especially when we are at the brink of our much toiled for and awaited success.
We think God is unfair to bring us so close and then watch us fail.
But God is willing to, as much as he is able, to bring us to the fulfillment of the great things we harbor within our beings.
And he would, within a variably short period of time, if only we would bear the transient pain and let him do his job.
Never doubt his love.


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