The Book of Genesis
Day 233
Ge 25:22 But the children struggled together within her; and
she said, "If all is well, why am I like this?" So she went to
inquire of the LORD. 23 And the LORD
said to her: "Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples shall be separated
from your body; One people shall be stronger than the other, And the older
shall serve the younger."
Rebekah had a difficult time getting pregnant, and then once
the Lord granted her conception, the pregnancy was not going well. She was
enduring a constant kick-boxing tournament going on in her womb and sought the
Lord as to what this unusual activity meant.
His answer is instructive.
Not only does the Holy Spirit use this struggle to illustrate
grace for us later on in Scripture (Rom 9:10) but this passage also teaches us
about the value of life from conception on.
Go ahead, roll your eyes, here I go again, using the Scripture
to point out that life begins at conception, but someone has to do it. We
continue to end the lives of unborn children in the United States at an
alarming rate with over 60 million little Esau’s and Jacob’s being eliminated
in the womb since the Roe V Wade Supreme Court decision of 1973.
Consider the fact that this whole story of the
confrontational lives of Esau and Jacob could have been narrated for us later
on in Scripture, but it isn’t! It is unfolded for us even in the womb. God is
forming, and God is shaping what He created at conception. As our Creator, it’s what HE does, and we
have no business taking charge of the life story of that which He has created.
Our role in all this is to patiently endure, to bring forth in birth, and watch
what God has wrought in the womb!
Ultrasound technology has given us a window to the womb, but
God needs no ultrasound. He sees it all
Ps 139:12-16 says,
“Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You. 13 For You formed my inward parts; You
covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I
will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your
works, And that my soul knows very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And
skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet
unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them. 17
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of
them! 18 If I should count them, they
would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.
And this is not the only time we read of such activity in the
womb in Scripture. Mary, who was carrying Jesus in her womb, visits Elizabeth
who is six months pregnant with John the Baptist and we read in Lu 1:41 “And it happened, when Elizabeth
heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was
filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Those little unborn senses of John the Baptist are working
already as he recognizes the approach of Jesus and reacts appropriately. It was a picture of what John the Baptist
would later proclaim in his ministry: Joh 3:30 "He must increase, but I
must decrease.
Likewise, those little unborn senses of Esau and Jacob are
working overtime in the womb of Rebekah, picturing the struggle that would take
place as they grew into men, and more importantly, (as we mentioned before) a
physical demonstration of the concept of grace, which we all need to see!
A grace that comes to us and grants us the gift of saving
faith. A faith that convinces us of God’s undeserved forgiveness of all the
sins we commit…..yes, even the sin of abortion.
God is the author of life. He is still in the process of
writing your story and mine, let us allow Him to write the story of all those
whom He has created!
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