Pickles and Ice Cream not needed??
visioncgbc | November 04, 2008 10:15
Well, Sunday night we were both glued as we watched “I didn’t know I was expecting.” Our jaws dropped as we saw women go into the hospital with unexplained pain, only to find out they were in labor. One lady had twins!!!! Can you imagine? They gained very little or no weight at all, weren’t sick and didn’t have any of the other symptoms of having a baby.
I found a picture of me the other day when I was expecting Chloe. The picture was taken at Christmas, and Chloe was born in at the end of April. I looked pregnant with twins even that early. By the time Chloe was born, I think I looked like Kate Gosselin when she was having 6. Thing is, I was only having 1!!
I loved being pregnant. The special attention. The excuse to eat. The new clothes. The picking out baby stuff. The anticipation. I can’t imagine missing the experience of being pregnant, and then just BAM-having the baby.
This is how a lot of Christians (including me) live our lives. We are expecting, but don’t live that way. We live as if we are barren Christians. When I say barren, I mean without hope of what God says we’ve already been given.
See if we are Christians, we will receive what God says we will receive. If you are a Christian, Heaven will be your home. If you are a Christian, one day things will get better. You are “pregnant” with the promises of God’s word.
Think of how a woman looks when she’s expecting. She glows. She rubs her belly. She sings songs. She smiles. She talks about the future.
As a Christian, do you have the hope of a person who’s expecting? Expecting the promises of God? I haven’t either lately.
Anticipation is one of the biggest parts of the process. If you and I lose that, we are going to miss out on part of what will help us as we go thru the ups and downs of life-until the time of our own “special delivery.”
Romans 8:22 (The Message)
22-25All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it's not only around us; it's within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We're also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us; any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy
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