PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | Episode 26 – The Awe and Wonder of Life in the Womb, Part 3

Episode 26: The Awe and Wonder of Life in the Womb, Part 3

FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell

God calls the creating of the baby in the womb “marvelous” (Psalm 139:14). God uses many adjectives in His Word. We then look up the adjective in the Hebrew to understand the word and we get more adjectives! The full understanding of this Hebrew word means “extraordinary, wonderful, miraculous, astonishing,” and “difficult.” It is the revelation of God doing things beyond the bounds of human powers or expectations.” We discover where this word is used the first time in the Bible.

Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.

Nancy Campbell: Good to be with you again today, dear mothers and wives, and whoever is listening. I hope young ones, middlings, and older, are all listening to the wonderful revelations we are all talking about in God's Word. Currently, we are doing the series of the wonderful, amazing description of how God creates the baby in the womb, from Psalm 139.

This, of course, not only relates to a little baby in the womb, which is happening right now, but it's about our own lives, where we originated, where we began. I want to mention a little thought as I begin today, from verse 13. Remember, it's Psalm 139.

The Psalmist, David himself, says: “Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.” You notice there, there's a personal pronoun. If we read this beautiful description again, let's just notice the personal pronouns of this Scripture. “For You formed my inward parts. You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes sought my unformed substance. In Your Book were written every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet, there was none of them.”

 

Now, David is not talking about a little “it” in the womb. He's talking about himself. Me! Now David is not a little baby when he's writing this. David is a grown man. David is a great, mighty warrior. David is the king of Israel. He's talking about the beginning of his life. He's talking about it as though it is him, right now.

And that is the truth. That's the truth we have to understand, that you, dear precious mother, you were you in the womb the moment you were conceived. That was you! You were not someone else. You were you, right then. Of course, from there you grew and grew, and you have changed all the way through. You changed as you grew in the womb. Then you changed as you came forth from the womb to grow to who you are today. But that was you.

Let's go to Jeremiah 1:5. Here God is speaking to the prophet Jeremiah. He says: “Before I formed you . . . ” Notice again, that personal pronoun, “You.” Yes, God is speaking to Jeremiah, not as...He's speaking to him as an adult. Yes, but He's speaking to him as when he began. He said, “Before I formed you.” Before I formed you, you, in your mother's womb, I chose you. I chose you. You!

 

Yes, this was in the womb. Jeremiah was already who he was, right back there. “Before you were born, I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.” We see here, this very personal pronoun, and that God was speaking destiny over Jeremiah. “Even in the womb, before you were born, I set you apart. I sanctified you. Before you were born, I ordained you. I appointed you.”

The actual meaning of that word, “appointed,” or “ordained,” means “to give, as a gift.” God said: “I gave you, as a gift, to the nations.” Every precious baby that God gives to us, dear mothers, is not only a gift to us, not only a gift to our family, but a gift to the world!

God gives each precious new baby as a gift, to bring revelation of Who He is to the world. It's good to be reminded, isn't it, that we are who we are now, right from the beginning of conception. When the 23 chromosomes of your father, and the 23 chromosomes of your mother joined together at fertilization, that was you! That was your DNA. Your DNA, which was unique from anybody else who has ever been born, or who will ever be born again.

That's your DNA. It's not going to change. It doesn't change in the womb, and it doesn't change when you're born, and as you get older. Your DNA is who you are, from the very beginning, that moment of fertilization. That was you. Isn't that amazing?

Let's go on to our next description.

No. 5: God marvelously creates us.

We are finding that these descriptions are so amazing. God said He created us wonderfully. We talked about that last time. Now we go on to verse 14, where it says: “Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.”

 

God not only creates us wonderfully, but He creates us marvelously. So many adjectives! God uses loads of adjectives in His Word, because He needs these adjectives to describe the wonder of His workings.

And this word, shall we look into this one today? It's very similar to the last one. Last week He creates us wondrously, and that word is palah, with an “H.”

This word is pala. It's a different Hebrew word. Yes, very similar, but different. It also means, “to be separate, to be distinguished, to be singular,” but also, also . . . get this, ladies, “to be extraordinary, wonderful, miraculous, astonishing, hard, or difficult,” meaning it's not something that man can do very well. It's something that only God can do.

It's the revelation of God, “doing things beyond the bounds of human powers or expectations.” We read this word in other Scriptures in Psalm 9:1. It says: “I will show forth all thy marvelous works.”

In 1 Chronicles 16: 9, 12 it says: “Talk ye of all His wondrous works . . . Remember His marvelous works that He has done, His wonders and the judgments of His mouth.”

Isaiah 28:29: “The Lord of Hosts, which is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working.” All using that Hebrew word, pala. It's talking about all the wondrous works of the Lord. Of course, here, it's talking about the wondrous work of God creating the baby in the womb. It's amazing, isn't it?

Here we read, “marvelously.” But then God has to use all these extra adjectives to explain the fullness of the Hebrew word. Did you get them? Let me give them to you again. We have to realize, this is the incredible miracle of how God created us—you, me, and the precious children God has given to us.

It's extraordinary, wonderful, miraculous, astonishing! When was this word first used first? We go back to Genesis 18:14. This is in the context of when God came and visited Abram, well, he's Abraham now, and told them that they were going to have a child.

Verse nine, well, the three men came to Abraham, and God said: “Where is Sarah, your wife? And he (Abraham) said, Behold, in the tent. And he (God) said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah your wife shall have a son.”

But we know that Sarah was listening behind the tent door. She knew that Abraham was old, and she was old. How could this happen?  And she laughed. “And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?'”

Then God says these words in verse 14: “Is anything too hard for the Lord? That question was used right in the middle of God speaking of a miracle of birth. Sarah was not able to conceive, but God said, “I'm going to do a miracle. I'm going to do something that man cannot do. And Sarah will have a child.”

Now this word, pala, actually occurs twice in the Scripture. “’Is,’ that's the word pala, anything too ‘hard,’ once again, it's pala, for the Lord?” Two times in this Scripture, God uses this wonderful word, meaning extraordinary and astonishing and miraculous and wonderful.

There's another very interesting part of this passage here. It goes on to say, after God said that, He goes on to say: “At the time appointed, I will return unto thee, according to the TIME OF LIFE, and Sarah shall have a son.” That phrase also occurs two times in this passage: “I will return to you, according to the time of life” (verses 10 and 14).

Have you ever noticed that phrase in the Bible? It also occurs in another passage too, in the Bible (2 Kings 4;17). The “time of life” is a very powerful time in our lives as mothers in our childbearing years, because every month, we have a time of life. It is the time of ovulation, those few days in the month when we are able to conceive, when we are fertile, when we're going through ovulation.

This is our time in the month when God can visit us and give us conception. I think I have shared with you how God speaks about conception as a visitation from God. Here God is saying, “I'm going to return to you at the time of life.”

I believe this was the amazing miracle that God did for Sarah, that He restored to her the womanly cycle. She began to cycle again. She was well past menopause, but God miraculously returned her cycle, which means that she would even begin to look younger. She would be even more enticing to her husband.

Once again, she is having this monthly cycle, and there, in the middle of that cycle, is the time of visitation, the time of life when God could come and visit her and give her that miracle of conception.

The time of life is something that we have to look at seriously, ladies, because it's part of the way God created us as women. It's something that is very, very precious to God, because He created us to have this time of life, the time when He could come, if it is His will, and give us conception.

He doesn't come every month, or every time we are fertile. He comes when He knows that He wants to bring us conception. So, we need to always be open to God. It's meant to be a time of life, not a time of death.

Many women want to close up this time of life. They don't want God to come near them and visit them. They don't want conception, so they do everything in their power, with contraception, or maybe even sterilization, to stop God coming to them at that time of life.

God wants us to be open. The most beautiful thing we can ever do in our lives is being totally yielded to the sovereign will of God, because then we know we are in His perfect will. He may not give us conception—we are in His will. Or He will give us conception—we are in His will because we are totally yielded to His sovereignty, and open to whatever He wants to do during this time of life. Isn't that wonderful?

No. 6: God works to create us

Okay now this verse also says “Marvelous” (yes, that's the wonderful word pala) are thy works.” God is also working when He is creating the baby in the womb. God is at work, ladies. Did you realize that the word for “works” is ma'aseh, and it means, “an action, an art, to labor, to make.”

It's translated “handiwork,” it's translated “workmanship,” and it's translated lots of different practical things. This word is used of people who are doing baking (the ones who bake the bread in the tabernacle). “Needlework,” four times it's translated needlework. It talks about brass-making and candle-making, and all kinds of practical things.

Here, of course, it's talking about God creating, doing His wondrous works. Oh, I love Psalm 145:9, 10: “The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. All Thy works shall praise Thee, Oh Lord, and Thy saints shall bless Thee.”

Now those words, “tender mercies,” are the Hebrew word racham, which I have talked to you about previously. It is a word that means “the womb.” It is used interchangeably in the Word of God about a woman's womb and also of God, speaking of God's compassion, His tender mercies. And here, here's the word! It's interesting. I'm amazed.

It says: “His tender mercies,” His womb, His motherliness is over all His works. It’s over, of course, His most greatest creation, the creation of life, for each life is made in the image of God. It's over all His works. God tenderly watches over all His works.

And all His works are to praise Him. Doesn't it say that? “All His works shall praise Him.” All of creation praises the Lord. We don't hear the sounds, well we do, we hear the sea and the breakers rolling. We hear thunder. We hear lots of sounds of creation, but we don't hear all the sounds. We don't hear the trees, we don't hear the flowers, and yet, they are all singing praise to God. He hears it, although we may not.

But it comes back to His highest creation, which are male and female, created in His image, for the highest purpose of bringing forth praise to Him. We are created in the womb, but ultimately, as we come forth, to bring praise to God. We are His work. Therefore, we should praise Him.

Therefore, we should embrace who we are. He created us female. As we embrace this, as we praise Him for it, as we function in the way that He created us, we bring praise to Him. When we reject who God created us to be, we are doing the opposite.

Let's look at Psalm 102:18. “This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.” There it is. Each person who is created, beginning in the womb, coming forth into the world, is created for the purpose of praising God.

Oh, lovely ladies, let's be those who show forth God's praise. It's more than just praising the Lord. No, it's talking about more than that. We are to show forth His praise. We see this in Isaiah 43:21: “This people have I formed for Myself; they shall shew forth My praise.”

It's a revealing of God's purpose for us in our lives. It's ultimately embracing who He created us to be as this female, feminine, nurturing, nourishing, womanly creation who is revealed in this aspect of the heart of God to the world. Just as God, racham, tenderly watches over all His works, so we tenderly watch over our children in our home. This is the anointing God has put within us. As we do this, we are showing forth His praise.

Isaiah 43:7: “I have created you for My glory.”

Then we go over to the New Testament. “We are His workmanship.” There we are again, God is working in us. We are His workmanship that began in the womb, as a Workman creating in the womb.

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).

1 Peter 2:9: “That ye should show forth,” there it is again, “that ye should show forth.” Not only sing praises but show it forth, reveal it in your lives, and embracing every way that God has created you. “That ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”

I think of that Scripture in Revelation too. I just can't recall the reference at this moment, but it again says how we are created for His pleasure. He created us for His pleasure. Isn't that wonderful? Here it is. “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created” (Revelation 4;11).

 

Let me take you to Psalm 111. Beautiful passage here about God's work. Verse two: “The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. His work is honorable and glorious: and His righteousness endureth forever. He hath made His wonderful works to be remembered.” This is what we have been talking about, the creation of babies in the womb.

“He hath made His wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion . . . The works of His Hands are verity and judgment,” and so on. Also, one of those descriptions is also the word pala, being wonderful, extraordinary, miraculous, amazing.

Okay, let's go on to the next point.

 

No. 7: God strongly creates us

Verse 15 now. God strongly creates us. This Scripture says: “My substance was not hid from thee.” Now the word “substance” is otsem, meaning “power, body, bones, strength, might.” God creates each baby strongly, so that when the little precious baby comes forth from that womb, it's strong enough to live in this world and face this world.

I think, especially when we have our first baby, oh, do you remember what it was like? I don't know, you may be like me, I wasn't very familiar with babies when I became a mother. There were only three children in our family, and I didn't have babies all around me. I didn't have that blessing of being brought up in a large family where babies kept coming along, and there was always a baby to love and embrace. I hadn't really had much to do with babies.

So, when this new baby was born, oh, it was so delicate! Well, it was a pretty strong baby, but I felt he was so delicate, and oh my, you are just so, oh, you're just overwhelmed at the responsibility of caring for this precious life! I do think that there's always that precariousness in those first three months as we watch over that little baby as it's getting stronger. But, it's amazing how strong they really are! They are born strong enough to grow and be part of this world.

Most translations translate that word “substance” for “bones.” Nearly every other translation says, my substance, my substance, my bones. “My bones were not hid from You.” God was there creating the bones. Isn't that amazing?

We looked at an earlier part of this passage, where it says, God “possessed my reins.” That was talking about the very inner being, our mind and heart and soul. God was in the womb from conception, even working in this part of our being.

But now it's talking about the physical, how He creates the bones. A couple of translations say: “My frame.” You were working on my frame. But most use “My bones.”

Now, isn't this interesting too, ladies, that right from the very beginning, God is creating the male and the female differently. We talked about this last week, how the baby is, from the very beginning, determination. It's called that. It's the determination, right from the very beginning, at conception, determination determines whether the embryo will be male or female, right from that beginning.

All this crazy junk of what's happening in our society today, and this push to transgender, and the weakening of how God created us to be male and female, is an attack of the enemy, and to God, our Creator.

Right in the womb, God determines the sex, male or female. He begins, right in the very beginning, He begins to create the bones of the male baby, of the little boy baby, stronger. Boys come forth from the womb having stronger bones, denser bones. They have stronger tendons, and stronger ligaments. They have more muscle mass, which is a result of testosterone.

Yes, it's interesting, even though the male has stronger bones, the female, she doesn't have as strong bones, but she produces more antibodies, and at a quicker rate than men, and has more white blood cells. For this reason, she will, as she comes forth, get fewer infectious diseases. Plus, if there is any problem, perhaps at birth, a female will be more likely to survive than a male. That's very interesting, isn't it?

God created the male to be strong physically. He needs to be strong to carry weights and to physically work hard and to go out and be the provider and the hunter. That's who he is. And yet, the woman isn't created like that. God put a different strength in her. She has an ability to resist infection. Of course, she can still get sick, but somehow she will survive more ably.

I think God created her to be like that, because the mother in the home, she often, as you know, I'm sure, precious mother, that you have to just keep going. Even when you're sick, you can't go to bed, and think, “Forget everybody, I'm sick, poor me!” No, you keep going. Somehow, you do keep going, and you get through, and you survive.

But men, when they get sick, oh, when they even get a cold, you know what it's like! Oh my, they're wiped out! That's just too much for them. God created us differently!

Anyway, time has gone! We'll talk more about it next week.

“Father, we do thank You so much for all this wonderful description, and how You show us how You're so personally involved in our creation, and the creation of our precious children that You give to us. We bless Your Wonderful Name, and thank You and praise You, and ask that You will help us to daily show forth Your praise in our lives and in our homes. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.”