Not this past Wednesday but the Wednesday before was the first time I had felt the baby kick or move. I was so excited and wanted to treasure the moment for a bit by myself. When Dwayne went to feel McKinley had stopped, but the other day he kicked good and hard for Dwayne. I love the feeling of a little one growing inside me. This feeling is unexplainable really, one you have to experience and I pray one day you will and if you have remember back when you felt that first kick. I know for me it was and is amazing every time I feel him. Two biblical mother's came to mind in Wednesday night and their first experience with this same thing.
Luke 1:39-45
"At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, where she entered Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord shall come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished."
Now this is Elizabeth's baby John who we see leaps for joy and her experience with feeling him first. Think about Mary now and how she felt the first time Jesus kicked inside her. I thought my feeling it was an awe moment. I get email updates each Friday of the development of the baby during whatever week it is. The whole conceiving of a baby is an awe moment. One of those miracles that only God can pull off. No amount of science could convince me that it is all scientific. It is truly a God thing. Only he could come up with the intricate process of conception and development. Each week something new is developed another part of the painting completed by the Master Artist's hand. He knows McKinley more than I will ever know him. His hands are already molding him.
Jeremiah 1:5 " Before I formed you in your mother's womb I knew *chose* you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
God you know my son even now. I pray with a mother's heart that you will instill in him now a love so strong for you that it outweighs the love he will have for me, his father, his future wife and his future children.
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