Don't Kill The Baby!

It had been a difficult couple of weeks, and they were made worse by the recognition that there was no real cause for the difficulty. My body wasn’t hurting; in fact, I was jogging regularly, not overeating, and feeling well. I was under no financial stress; my business was bordering on overwhelming, but I was keeping up; the Lord had provided a cleaning lady for me; and even my hormones seemed to be in fine order. For apparently no reason, I was crying over nothing, feeling at times intense emotional pain.

One evening I found myself mentally comparing what I was experiencing with the labor of childbirth. But there is no baby, I thought. It would be acceptable if there was a baby. Where is the baby? I sat down to read a book that had arrived in my mailbox that day, and I came across these words:

"God can only bring forth truth in a delivery room setting, there’s going to be pain, there’s going to be labor and blood, but there will also be the sweet sound of life. You will hear the cry of a child; you will hear the truth that is relevant in this day and age."

As I read that, I understood. There was a baby. In the middle of this emotional pain—the pain of feeling isolated, which may be the greatest type of emotional pain—the Lord had opened my eyes to something in scripture that I had never seen or heard before. He had shown me something about connection in the marriage relationship which, even in all my reading about relationships over the past five or ten years, I had never heard of. Perhaps even yet I haven’t understood the complete picture, but I know with certainty that this is not just for me; it has the potential to change lives.

Just as mothers can experience the "post-partum blues," which have the potential to destroy their love and acceptance of the new life they’ve just brought into the world, we apparently can experience this on a spiritual level, as well. I’d almost lost sight of what the Lord had so recently shown me, and was sinking into a mire of assumed hopelessness and despair—as though the Lord would show me truth, and then give me no way of experiencing it or expressing it to others.

So I write this, and ask you if you have ever experienced the labor of childbirth, brought something new and exciting into the world, and then immediately killed it with unbelief. Don’t think it can’t happen! Remember that the dragon is at hand during childbirth, with the hope of destroying the child immediately upon delivery. How many dreams died after barely having a chance to breathe? How much vision, how much revelation never made it past the first obstacle?

If you’ve been brought to the point of birth, you will deliver a son. That is God’s way.

But in your pain, don’t kill the baby!

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