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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