{Culturally} we believe in the science of baby-making. We believe that we are entitled and destined to procreate if we want to. We believe that we hold all of this power and ability in the very cells of our bodies. "It's what our bodies were made to do," we teach and believe.
Based on these beliefs, we find "the disease of infertility" described as "a medical problem" on popular IF websites. Friends and family of those struggling to conceive can become quite obsessed with solving the medical {scientific} problems that must be causing infertility. For everyone else, it's so natural that any diversion from basic science must signal a flaw in the equation. For many IF couples, science becomes a sole support on their quest for life.
We've explored science {my husband and I}. We've undergone all the testing, researched all the options, refreshed and broadened our knowledge of the basic principles of conception. Almost six years ago I brought home a book, "Getting Pregnant: All You Need To Know Right Now." My husband laughed, "We need a book? I thought everyone knows how it works." And despite our extensive book collection, medical reports, diet studies, and best intentions, here we are...still waiting, unable to explain in scientific terms the reasons (and implied solutions) for our infertility.
I believe there's good reason for the lack of "good reason." One that we are quick to forget, overlook, and ignore because science teaches that we can be self-assured in this area of making life. Life comes from where--oops!--from whom?
God.
The Creator. The One who gives and takes away. He who has a mighty arm and thunder in His voice. The Lord who formed man from dust and breathed life into his nostrils. The Lord who closed Hannah's womb {and then opened it}. The Creator who David credits with forming his inward parts, weaving him in his mother's womb. God, who told Jeremiah that before He formed him in his mother's womb, He knew him. The Lord God, who is not served by human hands as if He lacked anything, it is He Himself who gives life and breath and all things to all people.
He might allow us to understand minuscule snippets of His power; He might reveal to us the intricacies of His design so we can document and share it with the masses. In some IF cases, medical problems are present, however this does not make infertility a medical problem itself, nor does it make fertility a testament to science or evolution or survival-of-the-fittest.
Life--and all its fearfully-made parts--is a reflection of Him and is meant to point back to Him. When there is a problem, it is meant to remind us to seek Him, our Father. In all my research on wellness, conception, pregnancy, and infertility I have yet to find such reflective direction.
This is not an argument new to humanity--science has been at odds with God for a very long time--and I am not interested in a debate of proofs. I just know that I believe what the Bible says about the origin of life. I know that if we lived a life of true reverence for God the Creator, couples dealing with IF might spend more time at His feet, a place of true healing and wisdom, than curled up in despair over science. Science leads to competition and arrogance. There is no love in book-smarts because perfectly crafted equations leave no room for grace. Textbooks are limited, God is limitless. Book-smarts tempt us to forget about God, but let me remind you: God is full of wisdom, full of grace, and full of love for His creation.
The God Who produced and formed the world and all things in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in handmade shrines.
Neither is He served by human hands, as though He lacked anything, for it is He Himself Who gives life and breath and all things to all [people].
And He made from one [common origin, one source, one blood] all nations of men to settle on the face of the earth, having definitely determined [their] allotted periods of time and the fixed boundaries of their habitation (their settlements, lands, and abodes),
So that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after Him and find Him, although He is not far from each one of us.
For in Him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your [own] poets have said, For we are also His offspring.
Acts 17:24-28 AMP
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