Momentum For Monday, March 18th 2024

“That is what Isaiah meant when he prophesied, “Now you can rejoice, O childless woman; you can shout with joy though you never before had a child. For I am going to give you many children—more children than the slave-wife has.”’ (Galatians 4:27)

The soul doesn’t know the difference between a want and a need. That’s where your mind comes into play. The soul just yearns for anything or anyone to fulfill its barrenness. All it cares about is satisfying those desires.

Stress-eating, retail therapy. loss of appetite, the need to be busy constantly, and sleeping your emotions away are all ways we improperly handle the struggle of barrenness. It is a meager and weak attempt to treat the flesh with a deeper problem. You and I both know that it never works, at least not long-term.

Scripturally, barrenness is depicted in women, especially in the Old Testament. Shame falls upon the woman that cannot bear a child to carry on the family bloodline. While this is a female issue physically, the issue of barrenness is one of the soul that every human encounters.

The opposite of barrenness is to be fertile or able to produce. It can also mean unproductiveness. Plain and simple, it is a lack of purpose and fruitfulness.

You and I are created to be productive. We are created to be fruitful. There was a cause for your birth so there is a purpose for your life. If you have Christ, then the seed that enables the possibility of fruitfulness was already planted in you. What are you doing to nurture its growth?

“You will be blessed above all the nations of the earth; not one of you, whether male or female, shall be barren, not even your cattle.”

(Deuteronomy 7:14)