For the last couple months, I have slowly been reading through The Mystery of Providence by puritan, John Flavel. It is packed full of such great truth about God's sovereignty...and my mind can't help but connect Flavel's thoughts with our infertility struggles.
Here's some thoughts:
"Now nothing can be more precise, certain and punctual than is the performance of mercy at the time and season which God has appointed, however long it is, or however many obstacles lie in the way of it....promises, like a pregnant woman, must accomplish their appointed months, and when they have done so, Providence will midwife the mercies...into the world, and not one of them shall miscarry."
"'The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness' (2 Peter 3:9). It is slackness if you reckon by your own rule and measure, but it is not so if you reckon and count by God's. The Lord does not compute and reckon His seasons of working by our arithmetic."....it (the mercy) may tarry beyond your expectation, but not a moment beyond God's appointment."
"All this time the Lord is training you up in the exercise of faith and patience, and bending your wills in submission to Himself, and what do you loose by that? Yea, and whenever the desired mercy comes, it will be so much sweeter to you, for look how much faith and prayer has been employed to produce it, how many wrestlings you have had with God for it, so many more degrees of sweetness you will find in it when it comes....are not those mercies you expect from God worth waiting for?"
Yes, Lord, they are worth waiting for!
In this time, I have already learned so much more about waiting on the Lord and my faith has increased ten-fold. The mercy of children may never be ours, but I know that I will grow closer to my Savior in my hope of them.
And, as my blog title proclaims, He is more than enough.
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