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Genesis chapter 30 verse 22.

Then God remembered Rachel and God listen to her and opened her womb.

What a powerful simple sentence

that even goes back to what we were praying through when we prayed Genesis 29 verse 11 as we

praise God for his answers to our prayers. And this was a long time coming for Rachel. It's interesting.

This is a story that repeats itself over and over again in the first book of the Bible pretty uniquely that

Abraham and Sarah struggled to have children and wait for many many years until God opens Sarah's wound.

And you have Isaac and Rebecca, and then here,

Jacob and Rachel,

Rachel waiting for such a long time for children.

And then verse 22 says, God remembered Rachel.

Not that God had forgotten about Rachel.

And anyway, God does not forget.

God is omniscient.

God is all loving.

He knows everything about us at all times. He loves all who

trust in him. The whole picture here is God's love for Rachel. God shows Rachel that he has not

forgotten about her, that he has heard her, God listened her, and opened her womb. I think about my own family and how for a number of years,

five plus years, five plus years. Heather, my wife and I struggled through

infertility and I remember just for those five years I think about Sarah for decades and how long that must have felt.

And for five years just month after month and year after year wondering is God hearing me has

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