If you confess with your mouth that
Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from
the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
God’s word to you is this: all of His riches of
forgiveness and justification and freedom from guilt, condemnation,
and shame, and all his satisfying fellowship is extended freely to
all of you – whatever your background (O hear the expansive
heart of God!) – and it is offered not on the basis of
working or measuring up. It is offered on the basis of Christ
through belief in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead,
expressed through confession with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.
-John Piper
This is the message that God has given us to share through this incredible story. This message is not just one about an arbitrary God performing a miracle, but about the one true God, Yahweh, bestowing favor on us - unworthy debtors - because we are covered by the blood of His Son, who is God Himself. When God sees me and Steve, He sees Jesus, His spotless Lamb. When people pray to God in the name of Jesus Christ on our behalf, Yahweh hears (This is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. 1 John 5:12).
Yahweh is hearing.
We had our 16 week ultrasound yesterday. There was nothing but good news. Still 6 babies. Each one has a 4-chamber heart that is beating strong. Each baby has 2 legs, 2 arms, 2 hands, 2 feet. All have good fatty pads on the backs of their skulls indicating low chances of Downs-Syndrome. No cleft palates. My cervix is still 4 cm - "long and strong".
We feel like minor actors, spectators - puppets really - in the best theater ever imagined. The Mastermind Director and Producer is Jesus Christ, God, Yahweh.
Here is a video that reveals the genders of the babies. May you behold Christ through this revelation. May you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord.
This story just keeps getting better and better and ... better.
Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure. He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills. He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry. His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love. For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you. Praise the Lord!
Psalm 147 (selected verses)
