Welcome to Week 9 of MATRIARCHS!
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Week 1: Eve – A Mother Like No Other
Week 2: Sarah – Mother of Nations
Week 3: Rebekah – Mothering Through Barrenness
Week 4: Mary – Stubbornly Inflexible or Sacredly Flexible
Week 5: Naomi – Not Forsaken
Week 6: Jochebed – Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
Week 7: Hannah – What to Do When God Is Silent
Week 8: Haggar – The God Who Sees and Hears
BATHSHEBA: Daughter of Abundance
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Bathsheba’s name is often interpreted as “Daughter of Abundance.” In her own life, Bathsheba had Four Areas of Abundance. When we study those areas closely, we find they are relevant to us today, and can teach us our own areas of abundance, and can remind us of our true identity. Here are Bathsheba’s Four Areas of Abundance:
1. An Abundance of Grief
Bathsheba had to process through what David had done to cause her warrior husband’s death. Such incredible loss and confusion, and pain, in the loss of the husband of her youth, alone. Then she, because their sin, she suffered the loss of her sweet baby (II Samuel 12:15-25). I believe that the kind of grief Bathsheba experienced was a disenfranchised grief.
Disenfranchised Grief:
For the mom out there who may be dealing with disenfranchised grief, that grief where your heart is aching for something you can’t talk about, or feel you can’t share with others, understand this: disenfranchised grief can be destructive if we don’t process through it. I urge you actively process through it, maybe with a fellow Christian mom or counselor or mentor. Allow others, the right others, to walk with you through it, and allow God to heal it. Because God is not done with you yet, and He has a mission for you to accomplish in this life, and wants to heal you and show you your immense and abundant worth in Him.
2. An Abundance of Beauty
Bathsheba’s outward beauty both drew people to her and got her in trouble. But she wasn’t just a curvy body, a pretty face; she was a valuable, priceless, beautiful part of her husband Uriah’s life. We see her inner beauty later in the way David longed to comfort her broken heart in her grief. By then, David had made her a part of his family, and cherished her, and offered her a coveted place in his kingdom.
Never forget that God has put inside of you and inward beauty, and you are a cherished member of the family of God.
3. An Abundance of Station
She was the daughter of a military and political figure and counselor to the king. Her father and husband were stationed in Jerusalem. But later, she became the beloved wife of the king God called, “a man after God’s own heart” (Acts 13:22).
Bathsheba’s abundance of station is also found in being the mother of the promised heir to the throne. In I Kings, chapter one, when David was old and nearing death, Bathsheba bravely approached him and reminded him of his promise.
Ladies, know your station. If you know Jesus as your Savior, you are the child of the King. You are, as Ephesians 2:6 says, seated in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. And Hebrews 4:1 shows us that you are able to approach the throne of God with boldness and with his blessing. When you are feeling weak, unable, incapable, brokenhearted by the broken promises of others, approach the throne of God and find confidence in Him, and remember who you are, daughter of the Most High, beloved, redeemed, adopted, adored, forgiven, empowered, and able to do all things through Christ your strength!
4. An Abundance of Blessing
Bathsheba is named in the New Testament in the lineage of Christ, both on Joseph’s side, and on Mary’s. What an amazing blessing!! To be doubly named in the lineage of the King of Kings! In Christ, you and I have been given these blessings:
- An heir in the kingdom of God (Romans 8:17)
- Seated in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:6)
- Favored in the eyes of the King. (Psalm 5:12)
- Forgiven (I John 1:9)
- Significant to the Good Shepherd as His precious lamb. (Isaiah 40:11)
Trust Him with your inner beauty. Be confident in your station. Don’t let the enemy allow you to lose sight of who you are in Christ. Rest your weariness and grief on the Lord. He knows your hurts, your longings, and your losses. Allow the Holy Spirit to comfort you, and know that through Christ you have an eternal abundance of blessings and you are deeply loved! Walk each day, from this day forward, knowing that you are a daughter of abundance!
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