3. Your life is about more than having a baby.
Though it doesn’t feel that way now. I’ve told you this before, and I’m going to repeat it because it is so vitally important: Infertility is not your identity. It is not who you are or what you are. You are a vessel unto God, created to give Him glory and praise, and to accomplish the purpose for which you were called. If you are paralyzed by your desire to have a baby, how can you accomplish anything for God? Do you think having a child is your sole purpose in this life; that is the only reason God created you? Yes, God calls us to be fruitful and multiply, but that applies to our spiritual progeny even more than it does to our physical ones. I understand the burning desire to hold your own child in your arms, and it is not necessarily a bad one, but when it overpowers your desire to serve God and accomplish His will for your life, it becomes idolatry. That’s a tough pill to swallow, but it is the truth. Anything that takes precedence over our desire to serve God is an idol in our lives. When I finally realized this, I literally felt a weight lifted from me. God had called me to more than pining for a baby. He had called me to reach out to the hurting, to spread the news of His love and mercy to those who desperately needed to hear it. When I finally realigned myself to His will, I felt a joy and peace I had not felt in many years. My soul was fulfilled because it was accomplishing what is was created to accomplish. You will never feel fulfilled until you live your life in search of His purpose.
I still want a baby, but more than that, I want to accomplish what I was meant to accomplish. Consider this: you were created to fulfill a specific role in the earth that no one before or after you can fulfill. Do you get that? Do you understand the implications of that fact? That means that if you do not fulfill the destiny God assigned to you and you alone, it will go unfulfilled. Is that a chance you are willing to take? The world desperately needs you and the gifts God has placed inside of you. I once heard a man of God say that you will not be judged by what you did, but by what you failed to do that you were meant to. You only get one chance at this life, how do you want to spend it?
