SPRING FORTH NOW 2024
That’s why I don’t think there’s any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what’s coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens. All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it’s not only around us; it’s within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We’re also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy. Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
Romans 8:18-28 (MSG)
You Better Than This can be applied to all your experiences because God has impregnated you with an abundance of possibilities. God’s promises for your life and life more abundantly may come many different ways and often through avenues you least expect. Just stay on top of taking the required action to break the gates, overcome life’s challenges, and Open Up The Way to possibilities and opportunities for you to glorify God, to reveal Him and He promises to also reveal you for the good of His intent for your life. What you are going through is just enlarging you to birth your abundant life and everything around you, including your suffering, has come to work together for your good, to produce that which God has intended for your life and life more abundantly. Go ahead and Open Up Your Way, the possibilities are endless in how God will be revealed and how He will reveal you in the fullness of His intent which is for the good, your life and life more abundantly!
