Don’t Touch My Baby!

My Little Princesses

A couple of days ago, my wife gave birth to our twin baby girls! I am so excited and in love with these precious girls. They are beautiful, perfect, wonderful princesses! But with all newborns, the babies need to go through different tests to make sure nothing is wrong with them. Withdraw blood, jaundice tests, reflex tests, etc.

Yesterday I watched as the nurses pricked my little girl with a needle to get blood for various tests. They poked her and started to squeeze her foot to get the blood as I watched through a glass wall… It was hard.

Everything in me wanted to yell at them and tell them to stop! I clenched my fists inside my pockets, stood up on my toes, and leaned forward on the glass. One of the nurses outside was watching me and she seemed like I was making her uneasy. I didn’t care though because all I had on my mind was my baby. I saw my baby getting hurt and I wanted to snatch her out of their grasp.

I had to tell myself that this had to happen. She had to go through this so that they could get the results of the test. It didn’t make it any easier though, watching my baby in pain. My heart hurt for my precious child, and if there was any other way to get these tests accomplished I would have done it.

God’s Heart

I instantly thought about our heavenly Father. He does not just look on in apathy while we suffer the pain of our trials. He sees us in our sufferings. He knows our pain, and his heart hurts for us.

He also knows that we need to go through certain trials to be tested and purified. That these things must happen to accomplish something in us that in the end will produce something more precious than gold.

“By trusting, you are being protected by God’s power for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. You rejoice in this greatly, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials. These trials are so that the true metal of your faith (far more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire) may come to light in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of [Jesus Christ].”

1Peter 1:5-7

Just because he knows this that doesn’t mean he is not concerned with how we feel. I know this to be true. He is a good Father, and I am a reflection of him. If I feel these things for my children I know my heavenly Father feels this more than me. But I have a more sure word than my own judgment as a loving father; I have His word, and it says,

“In all their affliction He was afflicted. So the angel of His presence saved them. In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, then He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.”

Isaiah 63:9

Jesus (The Son of Suffering) Also Models This

Jesus also had to go through his trials and he prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me! Yet not as I will, but as You will” (from Mat. 26:39). He knew the suffering he was going to endure; yet, he trusted his Father’s judgment. God knew that this was the only way and on the other side of this suffering, which was for a moment, it was going to produce for him an eternal weight of glory that is so awesome that the suffering is not even worthy to be in comparison.

Did this mean Father didn’t care that Jesus went through what he did? Of course not! It is so evident that our Father cared deeply. So deeply in fact that darkness covered the face of the earth and a great earthquake happened. When the Roman centurion saw this he exclaimed, “Truly this man was God’s Son!” (from Mat. 27:54).

God Cares About Us

He cares about our suffering, but he knows that it is for our good. God bless you guys, do not think for one moment that our Father does not take notice during your afflictions. He is so near. He loves you so much! I am so astounded by his goodness. His gentleness makes us great!

"For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure and proportion, because we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is not seen is eternal."
(2Co 4:17-18).

"Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?" ~Jesus
(Luke 24:26).

"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
(Heb. 12:2).

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