M’Cheyne: Deut 23 (text | audio, 3:32 min)
Ps 112-113 (text | audio, 1:05 min)
Psalm 113 (text | audio, 0:45 min)
Highlighted: Ps 113:9
Discerning Brokenness
“The grief hit me in my mid-30s without warning … I now know the grief was over being childless.” @savvyauntie http://ow.ly/lWtU9
“I grieved alone … Grief over childlessness for a single woman in her 30s & 40s is not as accepted.” @savvyauntie http://ow.ly/lWtU9
Year by year, Peninnah provoked Hannah to irritate her because the Lord had closed her womb. And Hannah wept and would not eat. 1Sam1
Imagining Redemption
He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord! Psalm 113:9
Sing, barren woman … because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband, says the LORD. Isaiah 54:1
Ultimate fulfillment of ‘the barren woman’ is in the new birth through faith in Christ. God can bring life out of a dead womb. @timkellernyc
Praying ACTS
Lord, You delight to bring life from death, strength from weakness. When you do these things, you get the glory, we get the good. #adoration
Lord, When we come to you with honest disenfranchised grief, we confess that we often are confused; we doubt your goodness. #confession
Lord, Thank you for always choosing the weak, unlearned, barren, poor, orphan. For it shows your might, wisdom, sufficiency, love. #thanks
Lord, Make us a people who honestly admit our longings, but then turn in hope to the redemption of our souls in Christ. #supplication
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