"When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world." (John 16:21, ESV) The Bible says for everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heaven. A time to born and a time to die! Birthing has an appointed time. Every pregnant woman knows that she has nine months to prepare herself for birthing. During those nine months, she spends each day counting down, rehearsing how it will be, thinking about what her baby will look like, imagining the type of relationship she is going to have with the baby... preconceiving sweet memories, thinking and wishing and praying and hoping... until the hour comes!.
EDD. Every woman and most men know what that means. It stands for Expected Delivery Date; a date scientifically calculated to predict the exact day the woman is supposed to birth her child. The Bible says when a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow.. This is a principle of life. Whether you are birthing a baby, a dream, a family, a goal, a ministry, a marriage, a career; the Bible says get ready because you are going to have sorrow. It is going to be a painful experience. You will feel like giving up at some point - you will get angry at yourself and everybody else. You will blame your luck, your friends and sometimes even God. You will have sorrow - that's what the Bible says. If success was easy to attain, everybody would be successful. If having a good business was easy, everybody would have it. If building a successful career, a peaceful home, a good marriage, etc were without some sorrow - everybody would have them. But the pain it takes to birth a new thing is what separates the strong from the faint hearted.
If you are wondering "Must I really have pain? Hasn't Jesus taken away all my pains so that I can cruise in victory?" The answer is He hasn't. There are still some pains you must bear. Jesus Himself said, "In the world, you shall have man sorrows..." (John 16:33, NLT) Now this is an unpopular sermon, but it is true. You will certainly have your pains and sorrows. Jesus did not promise that you will not have sorrows. What He promised is that He will see you through the pains so that you will come out victorious. If you never have sorows and pain, then which tears will God wipe away from your eyes in heaven.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain..." (Rev 21:4)
We will always have pains the Bible says, but that is not the message. The message is what it says next "... because her hour has come". It says the reason she has pains is because her hour has come. When you have pains it is a signal that your hour has come, a sign that something is about to come out - a proof that you are about to birth something. Ask any woman who has ever birthed a child, and she will tell you that the bigger the baby, the bigger the birthing pain. The pains you are passing through are not in vain - it is because your time has come. It is your time to breakforth. You are about to move to the next level in your life. Don't give much thought to the pain. Don't let the pain stop you from birthing or cause you to stop pushing. Because if you stop pushing, you deliver a stillborn child. Keep pushing. The pain is nothing compared to the joy you will feel once you deliver! Keep pushing, your hour has come!
I pray for you that divine strength will come into your body, your mind, your spirit. Receive strength to push through the pain. Receive power to birth your dream in Jesus name.