"When a baby is just born it is usually crying. Why. Because it’s in a new territory, somewhere unfamiliar, cold, and way too bright. All the baby wants is to go back into the warm womb that has been their home for 9 months. The baby doesn’t know that even if it were to go back into the womb, it wouldn’t be the same and that in reality that would poison the baby because now the womb is dead. But if have ever seen a baby unhappy you know that crying is what they do so they just keep on at it. Nevertheless, there are still some things that the doctor needs to do. First the doctor cleans out the baby's nose (and throat if needed) so that the baby can breathe on its own. However it is still attached by the umbilical cord, its only way it has been able to breathe or eat for 9 months. So, the doctor clamps the cord to cut off bloodflow. And still the baby keeps crying even though the voice they’ve heard from above for so long is still there trying to soothe it and tell them “everything is gonna be all right” (This is where the super deep meaning comes in) Until the baby stops trying to breathe through the clamped cord, it cannot actually get the sufficient breaths it needs. The baby MUST be able to breathe on its own before it can be left alone for even a second.
What we don’t realize is that we try to keep breathing through our clamped cord, we keep trying to climb back into the womb, to keep looking back on our pasts where we are comfortable and don’t have to branch out. This doesn’t work. God does not intend for all of us to stay a baby (Christian) forever. He wants us to breathe on our own. Grow up. Mature.
Sometimes the best thing is moving on into the plan God has for us. Actually scratch that. It is ALWAYS the best thing to center your life in accordance to God’s plan. It is how we ar eable to be blessed by God, it is how we grow, and it is how our testimony strengthens, so that it can, in turn, can strengthen others.
...And this is my time to move on into the new things of God. To look forward, so I won't keep stumbling looking over my shoulder. Now I can enjoy the reign of God in my life.
Psalms 33:11
But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,
The purposes of his heart through all generations."
No-i didn't write this. A friend of mine blogs about her life, what she's going through, and how God shows her things. And this was one of the things she said. I really liked the analogy of birthing. You know, God tends to use that analogy alot in hid word. Jesus said we have to be born again. Peter said "in his great mercy, God has given us a new birth of hope" (1 Peter 1:3) When a baby is birthed, it is in pain. When a woman gives birth, she is in pain. But when the two come together, their pain is forgotten and joy is restored. Isn't that how we are to God? When we go through transitions, it hurts us, much like a baby. And when God watches us struggle, it hurts him, much like the mother. But when we are put together, our pain is forgotten, and joy is brought back to us. When a baby is being birthed, and both mother and child are screaming in pain, something new and beautiful is happening. A new person is brought into the world, and though there is much pain, in the end, the pain is gone, and the joy that the new child brings is everlasting.
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