Soon
Disclaimer: I've been meaning to write this post for over a month now, before the little one was born, but time as it often does got away from me so I am writing it now. The next post will be about the amazing little coconut that has entered my life.
My dad and others have often said that parenthood gives you a new perspective on God particularly as a father, your eyes are opened to see how he sees us (his children), you begin to feel the same things he feels toward us, your heart begins to taste even if to a smaller, imperfect degree what his heart feels; I find pregnancy to be another avenue to taste and see more of God and his Word as well.
It is written in the Word that we may not know the day or the hour of Jesus' coming but we will know the season. There will be wars and rumors of wars, nation will rise against nation, there will be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places... (Matthew 24) All of these are signs of the season just as the changing of the leaves marks the coming of fall, or the first blades of grass peeping up through white blankets of snow tell us spring is on the way. Pregnancy is the same I know the season the little one growing inside me will be born, but the day, the exact hour I know not. It is an exciting time! Every day that passes brings me one closer to holding my baby in my arms. And with every day that passes it means I am one day closer to being in the presence of my King. The anticipation is great!
At times it can be disheartening and even a bit freighting to think on all the chaos that is happening around the world: possibly entering into another war, one weather disaster after another, the utter collapse of our morality in society, thoughts of one world government... but these are just the leaves on the trees changing telling us the season has come the day the hour is almost near. Just as the occasional braxton hicks contraction I feel or the dropping of the baby into position means he is almost here they can be painful and I know that going through labor will be painful, but through tribulation comes new birth it brings forth joy. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you." ~John 16:20-22.
The signs should stir in us excitement and preparedness. Are we prepared for the coming of Christ or are we like the wicked servant who thought his master delayed in coming and did not prepare? (Luke 12: 41-48)
My dad and others have often said that parenthood gives you a new perspective on God particularly as a father, your eyes are opened to see how he sees us (his children), you begin to feel the same things he feels toward us, your heart begins to taste even if to a smaller, imperfect degree what his heart feels; I find pregnancy to be another avenue to taste and see more of God and his Word as well.
It is written in the Word that we may not know the day or the hour of Jesus' coming but we will know the season. There will be wars and rumors of wars, nation will rise against nation, there will be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places... (Matthew 24) All of these are signs of the season just as the changing of the leaves marks the coming of fall, or the first blades of grass peeping up through white blankets of snow tell us spring is on the way. Pregnancy is the same I know the season the little one growing inside me will be born, but the day, the exact hour I know not. It is an exciting time! Every day that passes brings me one closer to holding my baby in my arms. And with every day that passes it means I am one day closer to being in the presence of my King. The anticipation is great!
At times it can be disheartening and even a bit freighting to think on all the chaos that is happening around the world: possibly entering into another war, one weather disaster after another, the utter collapse of our morality in society, thoughts of one world government... but these are just the leaves on the trees changing telling us the season has come the day the hour is almost near. Just as the occasional braxton hicks contraction I feel or the dropping of the baby into position means he is almost here they can be painful and I know that going through labor will be painful, but through tribulation comes new birth it brings forth joy. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you." ~John 16:20-22.
The signs should stir in us excitement and preparedness. Are we prepared for the coming of Christ or are we like the wicked servant who thought his master delayed in coming and did not prepare? (Luke 12: 41-48)
HE'S COMING SOON!
