"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) "Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?” says the LORD; “shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?” says your God." (Isa 66:9) Life and nature is sustained through birth. Life has the unfortunate peak of cessation called death when it comes to an end. Plants, animals, man all must die at one point. The only reason there are still people and plants and animals yet on earth is because for any one of each that dies, a new one is born! BORN, BIRTH - what a glorious concept. A process through which new life is created. An awesome experience that we can only imagine. Today, we begin a new series on "Birth". Join me..
Our body consists of living cells. And by design of nature, about 300 million of those cells die every minute. The only reason we are still alive is because new cells are re-born every minute. If we stop birthing, we start dying and going into extinction. Science believes that over 5 billion species of creatures have gone extinct. The only way this happens is when those species continue to die without being replenished through birth.
In your life, dreams, aspirations, goals die every time. Knowledge becomes obsolete with time. Skills become out of touch. Techniques become antiquated. Modus operandi becomes outdated. The only way to ensure that you don't become obsolete with them is to birth new skills, new goals, new aspiration; acquire new knowledge, change modus operandi - update yourself.
It doesn't matter how learned you are, if you don't acquire new knowledge in a year, you will find yourself carrying about history.It doesn't matter how skilled you are, if you don't acquire new skills or refine your skills in a year, you will find yourself out of touch! No matter how trending and awe inspiring a piece of information is, after one week it ceases to be news! Great footballers, pianists, singers, etc who are excellent in their field do so by constantly practising and birthing new skills and techniques. It is a process of nature that without birth, life ceases to exist! Increase, maturity, growth - all comes through birth. Everybody loves a baby, but nobody wants to see a 30 year old baby. Grow up, and the only way to do that is by the process of birthing! We grow and expand by birth. You are only as big as how much you have birthed!
To be continued...