When I first heard this verse (focusing on verse 9) after being told it was impossible to bear children, I did not take it well. It just rubbed me the wrong way. "How is that even possible?" I thought.
First, I can't have children, don't you get it? In my mind, to be a "joyful mother of children" you needed children.
Second, I'm in too much pain to "keep house".
So much for encouraging.
However...
There is something to this. After some time, I was able to read these verses again and think that there maybe is something there. Maybe, just maybe there is a place for the Barren Woman. Maybe the Lord does see her after all, and she isn't totally rejected.
"To keep house", to have some place to belong. The Lord does, after all, provide a place for the Barren Woman.
As for "joyful mother of children" I'm still working on that. To be joyful and satisfied in The Lord, no matter what circumstances. Joyful as if I did have children, not delighting in the child (which I do not have), but in The Lord Himself. As Paul said in Philippians, "For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." Then he goes on to talk about being full and hungry, in abundance or want.
In this he says "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me."
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