"IS IT TOO LATE?"
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"IS IT TOO LATE?"
"The children born during your bereavement will yet say
in your hearing, 'This place is too small for us; give
us more space to live in.' Then you will say in your
heart, 'Who bore me these? I was bereaved and barren; I
was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up? I was
left all alone, but these--where have they come from?'"
(Isaiah 49:20-21, NIV).
I was with my father in his farmhouse some years ago
when he was telling me his life story. It was the early
part of his marriage with my mother. They had lost
their first three sons in succession. All his
contemporaries were successfully having children. It
seemed that there was no hope of having another child.
As he was in that same farmhouse one afternoon
pondering about his dilemma, he heard a voice saying:
"IS IT TOO LATE?" He did not know the source of the
voice, but he believed that it came from God, and that
it was actually not too late for him and his young wife
to have children that would live.
That was about forty years ago. The Lord has now
blessed my parents with five sons, three daughters and
eight other grandchildren - all alive to God's glory!
It was indeed not too late for my father to be a
biological father and even now a grandfather. The
bereaved family of two is now about twenty. My parents
still wonder till today that they could have such
number of living children.
I remembered this situation as I was reading the above
Bible passage recently. Hannah was in a similar
situation. The Bible introduced her as a sad childless
woman (1 Samuel 1:2-7). However, God changed her story.
She later had three sons and two daughters after giving
birth to that great man of God, Samuel (1 Samuel 2:21).
What is your situation? Do you also have a similar
situation? It may not be childlessness. It may be any
other seemingly hopeless situation. Let me reaffirm it
that IT IS NOT TOO LATE! The Lord is not done with you
yet. He will arise in His appointed time and manifest
His power in your life. Remember the words the
Psalmist, "When the LORD brought back the captives to
Zion, we were like men who dreamed. Our mouths were
filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations, 'The LORD has done
great things for them.' The LORD has done great things
for us, and we are filled with joy" (Psalm 126:1-3,
NIV. Read also Jeremiah 31:16-17).
In His service,
Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor)
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