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When God shuts your womb, He is allowing an opportunity in your life for
His name to be glorified. It does not mean that you continue to pray to God and
expend your hard earned money on finding medical solution. It does not mean
that you continue to wait for the Lord to work miracle in your life. Was there
only Sarah, Samson’s mother, the great woman of Shunem, Hannah, Elizabeth who
were barren, in all the history of Israel? Of course, there would have been other
women who would have been barren. What happened to all the other barren women?
Did they all conceive and bore a child? We do not know. The Holy Spirit had
chosen to mention only these women because God had specific plan to glorify His
name in them and through them.
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In II Samuel 6:23, the author says, that as a result of
her despising, condemning, humiliating, criticizing David and holding him in
contempt, she did not bear any child till her death. That is a profound
statement, a profound judgment. In II Samuel 21:8, she is mentioned as having
raised her sister’s children. The lack of understanding of the
God of Israel, non-submissive attitude towards her husband, a life of
unrepented sin, caused so much pain and humiliation to her. The children who
were raised by her were put to death, verse 9.
From the very beginning, woman and her womb has been
closely associated. In Genesis 3:16, God’s judgment to the woman on her
disobedience was this: “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your
conception; in pain you shall bear children.” In Genesis 20, due to the sin of
king Abimelech, king of Gerar, God shuts the womb of all the women in the
household of the king for the sake of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. On king
Abimelech’s acceptance of his sin and restoration of Sarah to Abraham, Abraham
prays to God and then they bore children, verse 17.
God forgives sin but we will have to face the consequences
of our sin. If your life is filled with porn, pre-marital sex, extra-marital sex, and
sex with prostitutes, and when you repent of your sins and come to Jesus Christ
for forgiveness, God will forgive your sin but you will have to live with the
consequences of that lifestyle. In II Samuel 12, God confronts David with the
sin of sexual immorality with Bathsheba and the murder of Uriah, husband of
Bathsheba. In verse 13, David repents of his sin, ‘So David said to Nathan, “I
have sinned against the LORD.” Though God forgave his sin, still he had to bear
the consequences of his sin, verse 13, 14.
God of the Bible does not consider a barren woman to be
cursed. While on the way to the cross to be crucified, Jesus said (meant), ‘you
consider a barren woman to be cursed, but hear this, “the days are coming in
which they will say, ‘blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore a child.”
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