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In the next few weeks, we will be studying the various stages of one’s life. The Bible has much to say about each age – encouragement, warnings, pictures, and exhortations. Today, we begin with the earliest stage – babies. Father and mother find out they are expecting a baby, and the whole proces
Birth, in its physical as well as spiritual aspects, is the work of God from start to finish. We as Christians rejoice in the conception and birth and rearing of our children. For we see God at work, in us and through us, physically and spiritually, giving us the personal gift of usefulness in His
Just ask anyone of our mothers who has delivered her sixth, seventh, or eighth child. It gets almost hazardous dealing with doctors, nurses, curious spectators, yes, even at times, fellow members of the church. Lets ask the question for ourselves, is giving birth to a child still a blessed event? Le
In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children means that children arc brought forth or delivered only by way of pain. It is difficult for us even to imagine childbirth without pain. How could a baby be born without uterine contractions and how could these contractions fail to be painful? The tremendous
And it was only in Christ that this was possible! Now as a woman nears the time of delivery her travail increases, but also so does her anxiousness for the birth of her child. For at the moment of birth she knows that she will have a joy that overcomes all her burdens she now bears. She will have an
Visit again the scene of a new birth. A young husband and his wife, after all the exhausting hours of labor are finished, forget the pangs of childbirth in the wonder of viewing their new baby . A real, living, breathing human person is this baby! Bone of our bones and flesh or our flesh.
As a result, the birth of a child brings a woman into a new kind of fellowship with the women of God’s church, a fellowship which often carries deep joy with it. How true this has been in my experience as I have borne children! My husband and I have had some difficult experiences with childbearing a