Infertility Encouragement from Sarah's LaughterSample

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What if Mark 16 read this way:

“Go into all of cyberspace and preach the good news. Post blogs, tag your Facebook friends, compose your tweets, and post on instagram. Don’t stop until everyone in cyberspace has heard about the sacrifice I made on Calvary and can make the choice to follow Me!”

Can you imagine what Jesus’ disciples would have thought? Cyberspace? Facebook? Insta-what?

Jesus didn’t tell His disciples to use the internet to spread the Gospel because He knew that wasn’t His plan for them at their time in history. It would have been impossible for first century Christians to comprehend the technological world we live in today. Imagine the confusion if He had revealed this part of His plan too early.

Perhaps it’s that way with your desire to conceive. Today you may believe you could never fall in love with an adopted child. It may seem impossible to you. But what if God included adoption in His plan for you long before you even knew infertility would be a part of your vocabulary? You can’t understand how it would make sense. Kind of like how the disciples never could have understood Facebook. But God knows just how and when to reveal that part of His plan to you.

When you finally reach resolution with your infertility story, you can look back at today. The possibilities that make no sense today will make perfect sense tomorrow.

• “I never thought I’d be content with fewer children than I dreamed. But God made my family complete.”
• “It amazes me how much love I have for this child, though I never carried him in my womb. I didn’t really think I could fully love another person’s child like I love my son. God made it happen.”

Why didn’t God reveal His plan for technology to the Disciples? It wouldn’t have made any sense. It wasn’t time.

Why doesn’t God reveal His plan for your family to you? Maybe for the same reasons. Maybe it wouldn’t make sense yet. It’s just not time.