The Umbilical Cord Concept

UV 1315/10,000 The Umbilical Cord Concept

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Psalm 22 v 10


In a time of prayer, the Lord said, “ I am your umbilical cord.” It means that He is the One who sustained us from the beginning. He supplies all that we need like an umbilical cord. Our personal relationship with our Creator is our permanent umbilical cord. We are formed in the mother’s womb by His amazing grace, love and power. We are cast upon Him from the womb. Every organ is carefully formed and knit together. All our organs are written in His book. He has made us fearfully and wonderfully. He is our God from our mother’s womb. He will undertake for us all our days till our tombs and even beyond. Before we knew Him, He formed us, knew us and loved us. He has done wonderful acts in our lives this far and promises to sustain us with even more in the rest of our earthly sojourn. Our “belly buttons” are the vestige of the umbilical cord but the sign of our divine cord is the cross that connects us with God. Just as the cross of Jesus is the bridge between God and humanity, the umbilical cord is the bridge between the mother’s body and the child.


Even the umbilical cord that connects us with our mothers is cut at the time of birth. It is the first event that happens on our birth. But our umbilical cord with the Lord is never cut. We are always intimately connected with Him. He gives us intellectual, emotional, spiritual nourishment all the time. He knows all that we have gone through as no one else knows- not even our mother. He has seen us before our mothers ever set their eyes on us. He knows all the days we have lived so far and are to live. He knows every thought that emanates from our minds and every word that rises from our lips. Our intimacy with God needs to be even closer than our relationship with our parents and other nearest and dearest. Since we are cast upon the Lord as His creation and responsibility from the womb, when we are pained, burdened, worried, anxious or fearful, all we need to do is to cast ourselves upon the Lord.


The Lord is the one who carries us from the womb. He cares for us into our old age. He is the one who separated us from our mothers’ wombs. He is the one who sanctifies us. He supplies us strength to live, to grow, to increase in stature, wisdom, knowledge, grace and to overcome. Even our mothers might forsake us or in the course of time leave us. But the Lord will never leave us nor forsake us. Sometimes the umbilical cord gets twisted around the neck of the child and the child suffocates. But the Lord’s umbilical cord will never be a hazard for us but be an eternal source of blessing and sustenance. The cord that connects us with the Lord never gets cut but gets stronger with time and circumstance. Our dependence on our mothers will cease but our dependence on the Lord will increase with time and experience. The nourishment that our spirits and souls need are supplied through this conduit in the form of the Word of God.

Prateep V Philip