Tick Tock!
If you’re a woman, you know the terror that goes along with
your “biological clock”. That thing tells you that time is ticking away and you
only have a certain window of time to conceive and give birth to your children.
Most times it has nothing to do with science and everything to do with society.
What is considered normal and acceptable for the world is what pushes is to
become mothers and wives at a certain time. Studies suggest that 35 is the
maximum age a woman should be before her chances to get pregnant start to
decrease and her risk for unhealthy pregnancy & birth begin to increase.
As soon as a woman is born, she gets put on the clock, a
race against time. Pair that with all of the other pressures a woman has to
face of who and what she should be, not to mention when she should be that
person, and you find lots of confused women. And if you just to happen to be a
woman that is facing the challenge of being unable to conceive or carry a child
to full term, you are now faced with the fact that your biological clock is now
a ticking time bomb. That window of time is closing so quickly that you begin
to feel like it’s suffocating you. What if you don’t make it to pregnancy
before age 35? What if you do make it? There are so many questions and very few
answers. But there is one BIG GOD!!!
Genesis 17:16-17 16"I will bless her, and indeed I will
give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of
nations; kings of peoples will come from her." 17 Then Abraham fell on his
face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to a man
one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a
child?"
For me, turning 35 is not too far in the future, and I would
be untruthful if I didn’t confess that it makes me uneasy to think that my body
will do even more damage to my plans to have a child. At each doctor’s
appointment I am reminded that time is not on my side. I am certain that when
Abraham heard God say that Sarah would bear a child for him at 90, he didn’t
need a doctor to tell him how ridiculous that sounded. If she couldn’t get
pregnant at prime child-rearing age, how in the world would she do it when she
was the prime age to be someone’s great-grandmother? That laugh was not in
humor or joy, it was in disbelief. He thought it was laughable that God would
wait until they were into their geriatric years to say they were going to
conceive.
God’s timing won’t look anything like ours because He is the
Creator of time. The Creator of time is not moved by time. His ways are so far
above ours and His thoughts are so far above ours that we can’t imagine what He
is planning in His timing. But when your biological clock is the only sound you
can hear, you will tune out the voice of God and be resistant to His plans.
My life verse is Jeremiah 29:11 but I want you to read
verses 10 and 11 in The Message Bible: This is God’s Word on the subject: “As
soon as Babylon’s seventy years are up and not a day before, I’ll show up and
take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I’m doing.
I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to
give you the future you hope for.
Sometimes God’s plans to take care of you, to give you a
future and a hope don’t follow a timeline you can even keep track of. Maybe He
wants to exceed your expectations in a way that only He can get the credit for
it. But, you’re going to have to wait for it. It’s up to you, are you going to
settle for your way or wait for His will.
With All My Love,
Mrs. Truscott
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