Her name, this young Mother, is Leah. She’s the wife of Jacob, the Jacob whose name God eventually changed to “Israel.”
“And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name JUDAH.” Genesis 29:35
Actually with the birth of little Judah, Leah now has born her husband four sons! (Reuben, Simeon and Levi, being the other three.)
My point today is simple, though I fear controversial.
When the son she named Judah was born, she praised the Lord! (And incidentally, in the Hebrew language that names means exactly that, “PRAISE!”)
Babies are gifts from God.
“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” Psalm 127:3
Note … I am not recommending having twelve children if your Wife is in poor health. Or if you’re going to have to raise them all at taxpayer expense. The Bible does say we men are to provide for our families (not beg for our families), otherwise we have sinned!
Do you question that? “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” 1 Timothy 5:8
But I’m drifting from my emphasis.
Leah REJOICED at the birth of Judah.
Many so-called Mothers today think (rejoicing being the last thing on their minds) … think only of “abortion” when they learn of a pregnancy.
And that horror (abortion) is certainly available in America and has been now (in some degree) since 1973. Though the current administration has proposed broadening (loosening) the abortion laws!
What do they mistakenly call it … “pro-choice?” (Do remember the devil is a liar! John 8:44)
A little baby … praise or murder?
Which response do you think pleases God?
God, the Giver of life!
I’m through now.
Leah rejoiced!
But ____________________ participated in murder! (Place the name of any liberal, at times immoral, woman in this sinful contemporary world who opts to surgically, chemically end the life of a precious little baby, growing in her body.)
— Dr. Mike Bagwell
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