💕 Babies Change the World. 💕

There is a nineteenth-century poem that ends each stanza with this high-octane refrain: “For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” The second verse of Psalm 8 gives us a surprisingly similar take on how God views motherhood. It tells us what he thinks of the babies themselves.
○
Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
You have established strength
Because of your foes,
To still the enemy and the avenger.
○
“We have been slowly brought to believe that empowered women are those who have detached themselves from fertility.”
○
If the purpose of our infants is this God-ordained strength, which he is using to silence the enemy, then motherhood is hardly beside the point to womanhood. It is hardly beside the point to kingdom work, or to cultural transformation.

Motherhood is central to the calling of women because it is central to the creational power that God has bestowed on us. This is our strength, this is our glory, and this is our true power. We make babies, and babies change the world.

– Rachel Jankovic.