Funmi Komolafe
Brethren, last Sunday was Mother’s Day in the United States of America. Many people across the globe keyed into the celebration. This is expected because motherhood is associated with joy.
In many cultures, once a baby is born, it calls for celebration. I’m yet to know any culture where motherhood is not celebrated.
However, not all women are mothers. Many are still making all efforts to be called a mother.
It is one of the reasons the single lady wants to get married.
Motherhood is a stage in life that comes with a lot of responsibilities. If the physical changes that women go through in pregnancy and the pains of child bearing were to be placed above motherhood, no woman would want to be a mother.
But the command of God is that we should go into the world to produce children.
Genesis 1 vs. 27&28 ( KJV) attests to this: “ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”.
To multiply, we all know is to make plenty, to increase. So, God commanded us to go into the world and populate it with our children.
To everyone that is waiting on the Lord for children, may God reposition you soon in Jesus name.
Motherhood is repositioning for a woman. Obviously some things will change. The body would experience changes.
When a single lady gets married, she is repositioned. Her status changes.
In the same way, when an unemployed person secures a job, he has been repositioned.
When a debtor becomes a lender, he has been repositioned.
Who do you depend on for repositioning?
In most cases, we begin to cry to be repositioned when we are tired of stagnation. Or we have been unable to find solutions to a challenge.
These are times that tears have failed to produce results and friends have also not been able to help.
No doubt this could be a very trying time for soneone.
Let’s consider a woman who has been married for about a decade without a child but desires to have a biological child.
She would turn to doctors spending a lot of money but if conception does not take place or she conceives and loses the pregnancy, she moves from disappointment to frustration and then to depression.
That would not be your portion in Jesus name.
Situations like this, put a lot of stress on the marriage and if both partners do not handle it with complete trust in God, it could lead to a broken marriage.
Both would be subjected to internal and external pressure that in most cases do not achieve the desired results.
What is needed at a time like this is God’s intervention.
Brethren, rough roads lead to a joyful road when God is involved.
If you doubt, we’ll consider two of the women that were called barren in the Holy Bible.
The first is Sarah. You know the story of how she and her husband, Abraham had lost hope of having children.
Genesis 21 vs. 5-7 tells us the story. “ And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age”.
This is the same Sarah that tried to position herself into motherhood by asking Abraham to go into her maid. The story ended in more tears for her.
Genesis 16 vs. 1-6 is our reference. For our purpose, we’ll consider verses 3&4: “ And Sarai Abram’s wife took her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
And he went in unto Haggai, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes”.
Sarah’s impatience made her think that the solution to barrenness would come for her if her maid could give her husband a child. She probably thought the child would be her adopted son.
Haggai the opportunist also thought she would own the man if she bears him a child.
Both of them failed. Sarah turned round to blame Abram for her ungodly advice.
The lesson here is that only God can reposition any human being.
Women who think they can go about having children for a man, who they aren’t married to because the wife is considered barren, often end up in tears.
The three of them, Sarah, Haggai and Abram yielded to impatience but God showed them mercy.
Brethren, let’s get is clear. When we are confronted with a daunting challenge, only God can reposition us from sorrow to joy.
To be divinely repositioned, you need to be strong in your spirit. Convince yourself that you would overcome and you will with divine assistance.
When the human efforts of Sarah failed, she turned back to God and the result was the birth of Isaac that gave the couple joy unspeakable.
Though Abraham had other children including Ishmael, Isaac was the greatest.
The story of Rachael should also inspire couples waiting on the Lord.
Rachael too had a bitter story concerning the challenge of barrenness. In her own, case, her rival was her own sister. Rachel got into depression when she said to her husband, “ Give me children or I die”.
Genesis 30 vs. 1&2: “ And Rachael saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children or else I die”.
And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
Jacob responded this way, because he had an alternative in Leah.
A depressed Rachael then offered her maid Bilhah to her husband and she gave birth to a baby boy.
Bilhah did not despise her mistress like Haggai but it was still an ungodly step.
Joy unspeakable came for Rachael when she gave birth to Joseph. God repositioned her with a special child. A child that all children before him bowed to.
When God repositions you, mockers would bow to your maker. God repositioned Rachael and positioned the fruit of her womb for the top.
When God repositions you, your condition moves from ordinary to extra-ordinary. You become God’s celebrity.
With divine repositioning, a bitter story becomes a sweet story that everyone wants to hear.
However, the one to be repositioned needs to have a relationship with the LORD.
In other words, such a person needs to live his or her life in accordance with the word of God and remain steadfast in prayer.
Be prepared to render services to the Lord.
Mother’s Day was marked last Sunday. As a mother in waiting, what did you contribute to the Children’s department?
It isn’t too late. Look around for the needs of that department and sow a seed.
The merciful God will breathe life into your seed and the much-awaited conception could take place suddenly.
If you are still single, take similar steps as the woman in the Lord’s waiting room because you are also in a waiting room and as you trust completely in the LORD, He would reposition you.
Shalom!
