God Controls All Aspects of Life - Psalms 111-113

Psalms 113:9 (ESV)

He gives the barren woman a home,

making her the joyous mother of children.

Praise the LORD!

God is in control of every pregnancy.  That is both an awesome and troubling thought.   We believe that life begins at conception.  We believe that it is God who forms the child in the womb:

Psalms 139:13 (ESV)

For you formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

We believe that God is sovereign:

Isaiah 45:7 (ESV)

I form light and create darkness;

I make well-being and create calamity;

I am the LORD, who does all these things.

In the above passage we read that it is God that makes the barren woman the “joyous” mother of children.  That is a rejoicing thought.   But, that also means that God does not give some women children.  Note what Solomon states about the barren woman:

Proverbs 30:15-16 (ESV)

The leech has two daughters:

Give and Give.

Three things are never satisfied;

four never say, “Enough”:

Sheol, the barren womb,

the land never satisfied with water,

and the fire that never says, “Enough.”

Solomon states that being a barren women is like other things that are never satisfied.   Being without child, when you want children, is a very struggling situation.   God provides children to whom He will.  We can’t always understand Him.  But, we can’t debate He is in complete control.  We may not understand it in our human mind.  But, we can, by faith, entrust ourselves to that sovereign control, even over pregnancy.  But, we must understand our God is in control and gives life to whom He will.  We can’t understand it.   But, we must, by faith, accept it.