“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she
should not have compassion on the child of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet
will I not forget thee.” (Isa. 49:15)
God takes the most extreme, unlikely example of
forgotten love that can be humanly imagined as a contrast to His own undying
love for Israel. The mother who would forsake her child is a prime example of
the phrase in Romans 1:31, “without
natural affection.” To carry a child in her womb, beneath her heart, is to
seal a bond that neither time nor space can sever—or so it would seem to me.
Yet God says it can happen. Unfortunately, I’ve seen it happen.
What kind of awful scenario could give rise to such
a thing, I wonder? Perhaps a mother could become so consumed with something or
someone else to the point that she would sacrifice her child in order to have
the other person or thing. Or maybe the child himself, or herself, could bring
such pain or disgrace that maternal love would be pushed to the very limits.
But, as I say, these are only hypothetical, and to my mind, unreasonable,
scenarios.
My own mother, in the throes of Alzheimer’s, did
not recognize who I was. She did, however, remember she had a daughter named
Salle Jo, and spoke most tenderly of her to me. She didn’t forget her child;
she simply was not aware I was that child.
God does not suffer from such maladies, nor is He
subject to the other possibilities mentioned. His love will neither
wander nor wane. He goes so far as to say in Romans eight that neither death,
life, angels, principalities, powers, things now or those to come, the highest
or the lowest of all, no creature known to man or God—none of these will ever
separate us from the love of God.
As long as God
lives, I will live…and I will be loved, because God’s love can do
anything…except forget me.
“The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee
with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”
Jer. 31:3)
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