{"id":1933312,"date":"2023-05-18T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suffering-infertility-is-a-gracious-thing-in-the-sight-of-god\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:03:55","slug":"suffering-infertility-is-a-gracious-thing-in-the-sight-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suffering-infertility-is-a-gracious-thing-in-the-sight-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Infertility is seen as a blessing by God."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuffering-infertility-is-a-gracious-thing-in-the-sight-of-god%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Trusting God in Barrenness: A Divine Paradox<\/h2>\n<h3>\u201cWhen [Christ] suffered, he did not threaten, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suffering-infertility-is-a-gracious-thing-in-the-sight-of-god\/\" title=\"Infertility is seen as a blessing by God.\">continued entrusting<\/a> himself to him who judges justly\u201d (1 Peter 2:23b).<\/h3>\n<p>Barrenness is a painful reality that accompanies us into every aspect of life. But the truth that God is the giver of the gift of children both pains and comforts us. While we may not have control over the making of our own family, we can rest in God\u2019s wise will for us and entrust ourselves to Him who judges justly.<\/p>\n<h3>Assisted Reproductive Technology<\/h3>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletics-jim-redmond-father-of-former-british-400m-runner-derek-dies-81\/\" title=\"Athletics-Jim Redmond, father of former British 400m runner Derek, dies 81\">seeking medical attention<\/a> for infertility is not \u201claboring in vain,\u201d not all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-announces-major-investment-in-ivf-to-reverse-birth-rate-collapse\/\" title=\"China Announces Major Investment in IVF to Reverse Birth Rate Collapse\">assisted reproductive technology<\/a> (ART) is healing medicine. Some procedures and medicines seek to transcend humanity and usurp God\u2019s procreative design. It is important to consider what is best for our neighbor and run the procedure through the litmus test of God\u2019s Ten Commandments. Manufacturing children in a petri dish and cryopreserving them in liquid nitrogen is risking their lives for the purpose of fulfilling our own desires. As a barren woman, one of the most loving things I can do for the children I beg of God is to suffer the absence of them rather than manufacture them into existence to be used, abused, and killed.<\/p>\n<h3>Infertility Has a Purpose in the Church<\/h3>\n<p>Barren marriages give ongoing testimony to the true source of life and remind the church that children are gifts from Providence. While my own marriage is barren, it is not fruitless. As a woman in the church, I am called and blessed to participate in the upbringing of the young. My husband and I can attest to the abundant work of serving as spiritual parents in the church. Being mindful of God, we cling to the promise that to endure sorrow while suffering loss \u201cis a gracious thing in the sight of God\u201d (1 Peter 2:19-21).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katie Schuermann<\/strong> is author of <em>He Remembers the Barren<\/em> (Emmanuel Press, 2nd ed., 2017). Find her books and more at <a href=\"https:\/\/katieschuermann.com\/\">katieschuermann.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Peter 2:23b says Christ suffered without threatening, entrusting himself to God&#8217;s just judgment. God&#8217;s Word doesn&#8217;t promise parenthood to all, a painful truth for me as a barren woman in a 20-year marriage to Michael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1431,"featured_media":1933313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7425,11820,14216],"class_list":["post-1933312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-god","tag-blessing","tag-infertility"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}