“Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.””(Genesis 30:22-23)
Disgrace is not only an inner pain. It is a visible shame, a situation that exposes a person to looks, whispers, and judgments.
Rachel loved God and was loved by Jacob, yet her barrenness made her a woman humiliated in the eyes of others.
She carried a silent pain that wounded her dignity.
Elizabeth lived the same reality.
After she became pregnant, she declared:
“”The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”” (Luke 1:25)
She spoke of a social disgrace: suspicious looks, whispered words, and a womb that had remained empty for too long. A shame she did not choose, but one she had to endure day after day.
And you—has it never happened to you to hear whispers as you pass by?
To feel a shame that follows you, that eats away at you, forcing you to keep living and moving forward in spite of it all?
Disgrace is that silent suffering one learns to carry because there seems to be no other choice.
But the Bible reassures us: God knows how to put an end to reproach.
“God remembered Rachel”—this means the time for His intervention had come.
When God remembers, He acts. He opens what was closed and changes what seemed permanently stuck.
When God takes away disgrace, shame turns into honor.
Tears become testimony.
What once caused pain becomes living proof of God’s faithfulness.
Above all, God restores dignity and inner peace.
Today, if you are carrying a reproach—visible or hidden—this word is for you:
God remembers you.
What people call shame, God calls a season of waiting.
And at the appointed time, He will take away your disgrace.
PRAYER:
Lord, see the disgrace I am carrying.
Remember me as You remembered Rachel and Elizabeth.
Put an end to this situation and restore my dignity.
Amen.
Apostle Dr Jean-Claude SINDAYIGAYA