After
work on a Wednesday evening, I was getting ready to take my bath when Nailah walked
into the room to talk and chat like we usually do as well as to give me an
update about her day.
Out
of the blues, she asked 'Mommy, is there still milk in your breasts"? Hmm, where is this coming from? I silently
asked myself. It seemed like a bit of an awkward question at the time, but I
answered and told her 'no'.
I
explained to her that because she and her sister are toddlers now, I don't have
any milk since I'm not feeding any baby. She said ok and asked one more thing
'but when my baby brother(s) come (because we are trusting God to have boys
next), would you have milk again'? I said yes, because the babies would need
milk and so God will cause the milk to flow at that time.
She
said ok, smiled in her usual 'I get it 'manner and walked out to play with her
sister.
As
soon as Nailah left, I began to think about her question and the Holy Spirit
began to speak to me.
I
had never given much thought to the relationship between the milk flow as food
for children and our spiritual lives in terms of God's ability to provide.
Naturally,
when a child stops breastfeeding for any reason, the milk dries up after a
while and when another child comes or is in the process of coming, the body
begins to prepare to provide milk for the newborn as soon as he/she arrives.
God
is like that with us in so many ways. While narrating the events of the day
with my husband, we began to discuss the different lessons we had learned from
our recent 'Nailah saga' some of which include the following:
When
we are babies (baby Christians) God continues to supply us with milk in the
sense that once you pray, you begin to see immediate results and answers to
requests but the older you grow spiritually, He somehow reduces those things
and you begin to see that some prayer requests will not be answered in the way
and manner you like or that things don't happen instantly, He does that
because, at that point, He wants you to grow and mature, so you are fed with more
solid food because that's what you need to sustain you as you progress in life
and because He is all about fixing our character and making us reflections of Himself.
Perhaps that is why Apostle Paul says 'I had to feed you with milk, not with
solid food because you weren't ready for anything stronger. And you still
aren't ready (1st Corinthians 3:2).
Provision: Before a need ever arises in our lives, God has made provision for it and once
you are leaving that phase and moving to the next, He has made another supply
available. No matter how Nailah or Anaiah cry for breast milk, I can never give
them simply because they have outgrown it and that supply has seized from me, but I can provide them with solid food which they need in this phase to grow
well. In like manner, no matter how much we cry over something we want or once
had, God may not give us those things because we have outgrown that stage,
rather, He wants us to have new experiences. No matter how much you cry for
something's in your past, He will not give it to you because it won't be
beneficial to you.
This
week, I just want you to know that before any need ever arises in your life,
God will make a source readily available for you. In normal cases, the woman
doesn't or can't produce breast milk on her own accord, but once the baby is
forming and coming, God naturally begins to set the supply in motion.
For
every perceived need, you think you may have or will have, know that God has
seen it and has already started working on ways to meet up with it.
