Women were chosen to bear children. We have been given the privilege and the duty. In Biblical times , women who were unable to bear children were chastised and rejected. Many would say, “Obviously she must have sinned greatly and God is punishing her.” To be barren was equated with being worthless. Even today, in America and around the world, when a woman discovers that she is unable to bear children, she is crushed. She questions her worth and womanhood. “What good am I if I can’t do the one thing a woman is supposed to do?”
I’ve found that many people feel the weight of barrenness. Women. Men. Children of God.
You may not be physically barren or you may not even be a woman, but if you’ll allow me, I would assume that you have probably felt barren at least once in your life. We all carry the weight of barrenness at some point in our lives.
Do you ever feel that you are failing in life? That somehow, you’re just missing something.
It could be in school, at work, or even in your walk with God.
You fail again and again. You feel worthless.
You don’t know enough,
you’ll never measure up the standards that are set in place…
you don’t have enough faith.
I have a word for you, whoever you may be… God gave me a word for you.
It came from nowhere… and for no one in particular… but I knew God spoke the words and I knew I needed to share them.
“Even the barren shall feel the weight of my Glory.”
We were never destined to walk under the weight of barrenness. Of worthlessness, shame, condemnation. Stop listening to the lies of the enemy. He lives to convince us of the opposite of truth.
You, child of God, do not walk under the weight of barrenness.
You were made for so much more.
You are promised something pretty unbelievable.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
So we do lose heart, Though our outer self if wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
We are promised an eternal weight of glory. Your sin and your struggle on this earth are transient. The Glory of God that we are promised is eternal.
But hey, don’t just take my word for it…
Read the Word of God. Allow Him to speak to you. Let Him take hold of your heart and show you who you really are. I promise you’ll never be the same.
