His Love Will Set You Free!

If I could add one thing to this sign it would be the word: God!  right at the top.
God's love will not betray us, dismay or enslave us. He is the Truth. And we know that in the Bible its says, the Truth will set you free. The Truth is God loves us. Even if in our hurt and pain we are so blinded that we can't see that for a while. He never leaves us or forsakes. He is there in our darkest hours; closer than our breath.

Today, I've just finished reading "When Love and Sorrow Embrace" by Beth Forbus- founder of 'Sarah's Laughter'- the Christian miscarriage and stillbirth support group that I mentioned many posts ago. The book was given to me by a friend of my aunts- I've never met her but through the kindness she has extended to me, I know she must be woman of great faith. From what my aunty has told me, I understand that she and her husband have as yet been unable to have a child. To think, that she would send this to me, and care for me, is such a blessing. I have experienced so much confirmation and healing from the divinely inspired words of this book.

In the very last chapter of the book, I was reading the authors insight into Psalm 139, which I found so encouraging. It was the scripture that we had read out at Juby's funeral.

Psalm 139

¹ You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
² You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
⁵ You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand —
when I awake, I am still with you.

There is simply no place God is not. He is there through it all. Birth is not a pre-requietes for God's protetction, God's love and God's involement in our baby's lives. Before a baby is conceived, he or she is already conceived in the heart and mind of God. Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit and God dwells within us- even our wombs. He is there when things don't turn out how we thought they would- when our babies heart stops beating and it is born, in some way or another, silently into the world.


I know this is so true for me and worth sharing word for word from the book.

Psalm 139:16- "And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me when as yet ther was not one of them."

God knew every day of your baby's life before you ever experienced the first day of your own. Somehow in God's plan, your baby has achieved all that God laid out for him or her and has done it in a matter of weeks or months! How can a baby born too soon to survive possible carry out God's plan? Have you searched the scriptures for answers? Have you pondered what God is doing in your life? Maybe you've found a true relationship with God beacuase you've realised you simply cannot survive this sorrow on you own. Imagine the eternal significance of the life of your baby if his or hoer presence in your life brings you closer to God! What an honour for your child.


And yet again, I'm resolved to the fact that with God, all is not lost. My babies will not pass in vain. At the very least they have brought me closer to my Jesus. And so today, I'm handing this book on to another dear friend, who has been forced to experience loss recently. I'm praying that this will also be true for her and her husband; that they can see through their pain enough to regain sight of the fact that there is no sorrow so great that He cannot reach and heal your wounds.

In our weakness His strength is made perfect

(2 Corinthians 12:9).