His Perfect Timing: Part II
It seems a little glib to celebrate God's faithfulness in saving me while not discussing the death of the baby I would never see (please see His Perfect Timing: Part I). Where was God's faithfulness in denying my baby a place in my uterus? A tube designed to deliver new life to its safe, nourishing womb, instead ruptured, becoming a tomb. Life ended abruptly, with a stab of pain. No gender revealed or ever to be known. No name. Me, teased; almost a mother. A number of times in my life my father has reminded me of the words of Abraham, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25b) Abraham asks this question of the LORD as he wants to save his nephew Lot from perishing in Sodom. Did the Hebrew mothers in Egypt ask this same question of God when their baby boys were killed? What about the mothers of Bethlehem when their toddlers and babies were slain? "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"...