All 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.
Meanwhile, themoment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He know us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
Romans 8: 22-28 The Message
The new and the not-yet remain for me as a dream, hoped for but unrealized. I wait.
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BEAUTIFUL!! Oh, timely words!! Thank you Gloria!
OH GLORIA!! I just read the other comments!! Blog spam!! Evil Blog Spam!
Well, since I'm "in the waiting" too and becoming larger all the time this must be why I am "more joyful in expectancy." I could nearly jump out of my skin in anticipation when I consider all that God is doing right now...and yet I can only "see through the glass darkly!"
Later in The Message translation: "We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!" I Cor. 13
Hmmm...savoring this post. Beautiful.
This is the flip-side of what I heard and felt last Christmas and the symbolism of Mary's pregnancy. Then I felt the fear and awe, the rush of knowing you've committed to something you cannot back out of.
But there is also the waiting. The slower pace. The wondering of when IT is going to happen.
"These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us..." Mmmmmm...
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