Letting God Open and Close the Womb

*courtesy of multiply and replenish*
 

Letting God Open and Close the Womb

Some people say, "I will just pray about when to have children." Or, "If I use contraceptives, God will just over-rule it if He really wants me to have children." I have a few problems with this.

One, you would still be using contraceptives which, if you look at my earlier post, invites abortion. For this one reason alone, can we not stay away from contraceptives? Doesn't just the thought that using birth-control can cause you to abort a baby make you want to stay away from it altogether?

Two, isn't this just support for the fact that birth control doesn't always work anyway? Sometimes I hear women talk about having babies like they are ordering pizza. They think they can control everything. Then, after being on birth control for several years, they decide, okay, timing is perfect, so let's have a baby, and then it takes them two or three years to get pregnant and they mourn over the fact that they waited. I know other women who get pregnant no matter what contraceptives they use. As Rick Boyer says in his book Yes, They're All Ours "If you take action to cut off your fertility, God may or may not act to reverse the consequences. The same applies if you take action to cut off your own head. To me it seems that this question gets the issue backward. Why not let God plan your family as He did for people in scripture? Let Him open and close the womb as He knows best, rather than doing something questionable and expecting Him to overrule your mistakes." (P.122)