Hello, Chosen Woman

 ©2005 by Denise Rivet

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"Nevertheless [the sentence put upon women of pain in motherhood does not hinder their souls' salvation, and] they will be saved [eternally] if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control, [saved indeed] through the Childbearing or by the birth of the divine Child," (1 Timothy 2:15 AMP)

“Hello chosen woman... beloved of our Lord, God is with you!”

          Never before had I been greeted from my very depths with such tender and sacred regard for my female person. I wondered at this greeting and what it could mean! “Beloved of our Lord, God is with you!”  Astounded, I wept.  How I had longed for the experience of intimacy that His words conveyed with the imparting of ‘Wee Immanuel’ to my mortal flesh. He did so according to His promise...

“For unto us a Child is born,

Unto us a Son is given,”

 …given first to Mary, and then applied in Spirit to each member of His ‘Chosen Woman’; His bride.

          I knew I was standing on the holy ground of God’s profound mystery of His ‘Childbearing and Birthing Wisdom’....where my body is both the mother that bears Wee Immanuel, and the spiritual child that is born of Him. 

          In vain had I tried to know Him. His very presence now marked me as His, and I believed without a doubt my ‘chosenness’ by Him and for Him. He had heard the cry in my barren heart.  He alone knew of my deepest desire to know Him intimately and to be known by Him... 

          Just as Mary had been apprehended by God when impregnated with Jesus, I had been apprehended by God in the Spirit of the ‘Childbearing and Birthing Wisdom’.  His living presence within my own body confused everything I had ever learned.

          As He had provided Mary with Elizabeth, He provided me with an ‘Elizabeth’, a reverent older woman who was filled with the Holy Spirit’s ‘Childbearing and Birthing Wisdom’.  It was in her immersion in this love and wisdom that she bore witness to Jesus’ gestating life in me.

          In haste, I set out for the Centre of Incarnatology… the home of the ‘Elizabeth’ of God’s choice.  My ‘Elizabeth’ was quite far along in the ‘Childbearing and Birthing Wisdom’ and had become a living manifestation of Jesus’ intercession ‘that they all may be one’.  My life was likewise immersed in this prayer.