Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
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PROTECTED AND PRESERVED
1 Timothy 2:15 tells us that we will be "saved in childbearing." Does this mean that we will be saved from having a painless childbirth experience? Some women experience this, but the Scripture actually means the complete embracing of motherhood-birthing and then nurturing and raising children.
The word "saved" is "sozo" and has a wonderful rich meaning. It comes from a root word, "saos" which means "safe." That's nice, isn't it? But it also means "to be healed, preserved, protected, delivered, and made whole." On a number of occasions when Jesus healed people He said: "Thy faith hath made thee WHOLE." The word "whole" is "sozo," the same word used for mothers in 1Timothy 2:15.
How blessed we are that when we embrace the plan God has for us as women. We will be saved from deception (as that is the context of this passage) but we will also be preserved and protected physically. Science is now catching up with God's truth and more and more studies reveal that the more babies a mother births and nurses at her breast, the more physical blessing she receives. She is also protected from the epidemic of female cancers.
Thank you, Lord for your protection and care and for the perfect plan you have for your female creation.
Be blessed today as you embrace God's wonderful plan of mothering and child-rearing.
Have a wonderful day in your home today,
Nancy Campbell
