1 Timothy 2:15 “Notwithstanding she shall be
saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with
sobriety”
I’m not a feminist! Nor am
I someone who speaks in favor or rise up flags for womanhood!!! But through
Childbearing and raising my son, Bryan, I’ve come to experience the untold
parallels between the two worlds. A physical world of Women Childbearing/Childcare
is no different from the spiritual world of salvation!
First let’s look, what
exactly is salvation. A large part of it is being born again is Christ the
Lord! But what follows to sustain this born again experience in spiritual world,
is renouncing the flesh and living for Jesus Christ. 1. Luke 9:3 “And he said
to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me”. 2. John 12: 24 goes on to say “Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth
alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” 3. More so, the
immerse water baptism that symbolizes a person being dead to himself to raise
up again to live for God Jesus Christ.
Now, those mothers out
there, do these three pointed verses above ring a bell. Unconsciously across
the world, religions, dialect or race, a women through childbearing experiences
the same. 1. A mother denies herself of her own likes, identity and dreams to
take up the HUGE, I say literally HUGE responsibility of
Childbearing/childcare. Labour pain is literally a re-birth for every mother!! And
Childcare that follows, is all about living and doing every bit for the Child.
There is no self or self-interests in being a mother. Even sleep to our eyes is
a gift granted from the family responsibilities and child’s comfort sleep. 2.
Like a corn of wheat that falls to die, we from being a princess, fall down
into the ground to serve, serve and serve our loved ones. Cleaning the potty with
bare fingers that we once disgusted to see, being relieved from hearing the unpleasant
burrp which we once felt embarrassed to hear, churning meal after meal which my
lazy hands once denied to cook. In all this we aim only bring forth fruit.
Fruit called Family Support and Child Growth. 3. We literally and quite
literally die to ourselves and raise up to live for our family post
childbearing. All this said, Our sacrifices bring back to us the best of
Fruits! Called “Unadulterated Love” back from our child. It may be true that my
son will eventually leave some day! But what I experience from him and my
husband today, makes all my sacrifices worthy. I’m so filled with love, that
both look up to me and just me for love, comfort or care. I can imagine how
Christ would feel when I reciprocate back to His Sacrificial Love on the Cross,
like that.
Though, I believe Men
share an equal responsibility and provide a greater support for Women during
Child Care, what a Women goes through as a sacrificial transformation is on harmonized
parallels with the experience of Salvation in Christ! Christ Died for us! A
good Women dies for herself to live for her child and then family. Many Cases of Depression or Anxiety or Guilt (which
I must admit that I go through in synapses as well, Thankfully I’m blessed with
a husband who loves and support me through and out of it patiently), for
New-Mom’s happens literally because of denial of the above perspective.
Switching back and forth between Depression: Self (Interests, dreams and
Comfort) that is lost and Anxiety: rising up to live to the sudden
responsibilities of Family (Food, Household Chores, Child Care,……) can only
make Denial worse. Still remote are the multi-faceted roles of working mothers!
God alone give them the strength to meet the demands of job and home.
So, much sacrificial a
Women becomes, that 1 Timothy 2:15 goes on to say “she shall be saved in
childbearing”!!!
