A Labor of Love

I am currently, as I write this, sitting in a hospital waiting room, my beautiful baby sister is in labor and we are waiting for the miracle of life. But let me tell you that from an outsider looking in, she is not enjoying the process. Her body is doing all the things that it needs to for the miracle of life to happen but I can tell you that it isn't easy and it isn't quick. There is a natural process and you have to walk through all the stages of that process to acquire the end result. There isn't really a way to get the end result of a beautiful baby with out pain and without the mother shedding blood. Whether it be by C-Section or by natural birthing methods, but both of those call for blood shed and some possible pain. Yes this is on my mind since I am sitting here, but it is also on my mind because, not in the same physical way that my sister is walking through this process, but God is walking me through this process spiritually. I am walking through the struggle of allowing God to birth something in me. It is NEVER easy, you have pain, heartbreak, loss of closeness with others and sense of feeling alone because as much as others want to take the pain, they can't walk through this for me. There is something to be said about labor. Not hard work, which labor is that as well, but the intense labor of pain and struggle so that God can birth something new for His kingdom. That is what its about anyway. This labor of dealing with the loss of having to leave family, and now my new niece that isn't even breathing her first breath yet, is painful. Having to wait until the proper time for God to birth this in me is painful. I can feel the labor pains begin and I am still at the beginning. There is a lot more to come. Choosing to allow God to do this through me, in the end, will be worth it all. No matter how hard the process is I choose to walk through this Labor of Love for the purpose of changing lives, including mine. Is God asking you to birth something? Is there a purpose you KNOW you are called to but don't want the pain? Well let me remind you of an amazing characteristic that God allows us, we WON'T remember pain the way it happened but we WILL remember regret and we will remember us aborting a dream that God has given us. So push through the pain, and allow life to take place not just in you, but others as well. Remember that there is nothing like the Cross to put into perspective OUR LABOR OF LOVE!!!!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Perseverance vs. Endurance

Image
Endurance is something I normally associate with sports, but really in the bible endurance is something that is to wait out the storm to wait it out and know that things will change. Waiting for things to change but just sitting back and riding out the storm. I have endured a lot of things but what does that really show about my character? Nothing except that I know how to wait things out sometimes. That I can sit back and ride the wave, or have a bit of patience for things to change. Although endurance is good in sports and beneficial when you need to wait on something, it isn't what defines character. It isn't what makes good stories. Who wants to sit and listen to someone tell you a story about them sitting and waiting for things to change, who wants to tell a story like that? I sure don't. When I tell a story I want it to be a good story but Epic stories like the Titanic come from something other than endurance. If those people on the boat would have done nothing but en...
Read more

Warring further still...

Image
Knowing that this season in my life is where it should be is probably easier to accept, than for me to accept the truths of what God Himself has spoken to me about the future. I will tell you that what I am walking through is difficult and hard, but what God has spoken to me is even harder. Not because it will be painful, although I am sure it will be at times, but because of the reality and gravity of what it is. I am in a season of prepping, I believe, in my life for the next season of living out what I know God has said. He has given me direction in many areas of my life and yet I am in this waiting game. Tonight I was reminded that as Jesus had the cross before Him, those hours in the garden right before were necessary. He needed to go and seek the face of His Father. He needed to go further still. (Matt. 26:38-39) He wrestled with the dread for the task He was about to undertake. I know that God isn't asking us to take on all the sins of the world for all the ages ever to be, ...
Read more

1 Thes. 5:16-18

Image
"Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." 1 Thes. 5:16-18 NIV How simple are these three verses and yet we think that there is so much more we need to do, for us to be in God's will. We take them in and let them out so easily. As if God CAN'T want something so simple, He is a BIG God and so He MUST want something BIG. This is a lie. We run around in circles trying to figure out the will of God and yet we can't seem to find it because we are looking in the WRONG direction. We hear God, We MOVE, and then leave God in the dust because He made a turn and we didn't hear him because we didn't STOP and ask. God doesn't change, His plans for us don't change, YET we seem to think that He is the one that changes when we head in the wrong direction. We blame Him for ditching us and not telling us when to move, when REALLY it is us who didn't stop and ask for a new direction....
Read more