After the trial of birth comes the Joy!
Today's Scripture:
To the woman (the Lord God) said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
Genesis 3:16
God cursed humankind when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. That curse left the human race with numerous problems, including pain in childbirth for women and man's fight to overcome weeds and thistles in trying to produce food. Even today, people feel the results of that curse. Bearing a child is monumentally painful. Many men feel unfulfilled in their work, or that they have never produced anything in their lives.
What is the solution? There is an important answer for women in this verse about the pain Eve would feel in having children. It's just like God to give back with his right hand what his left hand has taken. In the midst of the curse, he offered a great promise: you will still have children. You will still love your husband. You will still enjoy desire for you mate.
Even when God levies a terrible curse, he provides a tremendous blessing beyond it.
Selah people' and friends God promised in his statement to Eve that great blessing would come even in the midst of a curse. Every woman who has given birth by natural means knows the meaning of God's curse. But God did not leave labor without hope. After the baby is born joy results, and the curse of labor is forgotten. In the place of pain comes great jubilation.
"When you are feeling the pangs of a sinful world, remember, God will give you fulfillment even though you must travel some hard paths or rows to get to it."
Your pastor,
Rev Patrick Muston
Selah Christian Church
Four Oaks, NC
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