The Removal of Barrenness

UV 3605/10000 The Removal of Barrenness This is how the Lord has dealt with me in the days when He looked with favour on me, to take away my disgrace among men. Luke 1 v 25 Elizabeth secluded herself for five months, much like the way virtually the whole world has been in lockdown since the past five months due to the covid 19 pandemic. Elizabeth’s pregnancy advanced during these months and she kept praising the Lord with the words of the above uni-verse. Her barrenness till then was the source of her disgrace. Like other Hebrew women who were barren, she was looked down upon by her family and friends due to this. But the Lord has taken away her barrenness and her disgrace at one shot with the child she had conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Lord had heard the petitions of her husband, the old priest Zacharias. History was about to be made for the chlld in the womb would be hailed by the greatest to be ever born as human, Jesus as the greatest among all men born. John, the cousin of Jesus was to be His forerunner, the herald to the Messiah. When the Lord looks upon us with favour, He removes the barrenness of our lives in different areas of our lives. We, like Zacharias and Elizabeth, his wife need to be prayerful and faithful till it happens. We need to wait upon our miracle, the answer of favour from the Lord. We should bear our disgrace or our problems patiently till the Lord turns His face to look upon us with favour. It might not happen instantly. It might happen after a very long while when it might seem difficult or impossible to happen even as the couple had aged and the possibility of having an offspring diminished with every passing year. Zacharias, instead of rejoicing on hearing the angel who identified Himself as the archangel Gabriel, was troubled, worried, fearful and doubtful. As a consequence of his doubting and questioning the will of God, he was visited with temporary muteness till the child promised was born. The Lord will not let the faithful be disgraced or ashamed before men. He will lift us up in due time. What eye has not seen, nor ear heard nor imagined by any of us will happen when the Lord looks on us with favour. Our fervor for God does determine the favour of God. But the Lord in His sovereign will decides how He answers our need, heals us of barrenness in the areas of such barrenness in our lives. It will make us joyful and delighted and many will rejoice over it even as they rejoiced over the birth of the prophet of wildnerness, John, the Baptist. We need to seclude ourselves and wait for the appointed hour of the birth of the blessing in our lives, without being troubled, worried, fearful or doubtful. The Lord can and does do the impossible to lift up His children.