I’ve never given birth in the natural realm, but what I can imagine is its not that pretty. I imagine people straining trying to get the baby out, I imagine pain and big decisions being made as the mother decides whether she can withstand the pain and bypass an epidural for the baby’s sake, or if she can’t stand it any longer and she gives in.
I imagine a lot of things, lol.
But the same thing happens in the spirit realm when we are about to give birth. Things come against us and cause us to have contractions. The enemy may send things hoping to abort your baby or cause a stillbirth.
Your decision to protect your vision and make the decision to keep pressing forward no matter the pain is pivotal.
People may not even realize they are being used in order to thwart God’s plan in their life. They may paint themselves as someone spiritual while the pregnancy inside of you is telling you that they are from a different tribe and they mean no good.
Giving birth is not pretty for the mother and for those close around them as they go through the process with them. It can be painful, it can be frightening.
But the mother is the one that gets to hold the baby after it is firstborn and who gets to feel the baby in her arms knowing that it just came from her body.
This is her child, the one she has carried for the past eight months. She has read books to him in her belly, sung to him even though she hasn’t seen him yet. She has prayed in advance for what type of school he would go to or what type of woman he would marry.
She has read books to prepare herself for how best to take care of him and she has spoken to other mothers about her concerns and her excitement. She alone knows what this baby means to her and she alone knows what it took to carry him.
Just like this picture I described, some are getting ready to birth something in the spiritual realm. It is not pretty and it is not pretty to others around you who may not understand your hormonal changes, the changes in your body and energy levels, and your overall preoccupation with what is coming next.
But no matter what, soon you will hold in your arms what you carried for eight months and you will know that yes God you are good. You have made my joy complete and turned my sorrow into dancing. For everything I went through, to hold this bundle of joy in my hands was all worth it.