Comment:
When God Almighty created the woman, Eve and gave her to Adam, He blessed them and said: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth”. (Genesis 1:26-28) It is not the will of God for married couples to remain childless. It is the work of the enemy to destabilise marriage and make it look like a painful venture. A significant number of couples have been praying to The LORD to make “them houses” like the two Egyptian midwives, Shiphrah and Puah. – Exodus 1:15-21.
Many couples that the devil has rendered childless would “clutch at every straw” and visit many doctors to receive all kinds of treatments. To all such ones they should continue to hope in God and draw inspiration from the case of Rachel whose patience paid off in the end. The Bible states: “And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach” – Genesis 30:22, 23.
People should continue in prayer and wait patiently on the LORD. Our Lord Jesus Christ said, “In your patience possess ye your souls.” Luke 21:19, Again, he taught us “that men ought always to pray, and not to faint”. (Luke 18:1) The Psalmist admonishes us thus, “Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved”. – Psalm 55:22.