pregnant again...

pregnant again...
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Jesus replied, "The truth is, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives new life from heaven. -Jesus (John 3:5-6)

Getting pregnant messes up all your plans...especially when you are not planning it. But life doesn't always fit our plans does it. What kind of emotion would you have right now...if you found out your honey was pregnant or that your "one night stand" left you with more than a good feeling? We have been conditioned more and more to think less and less about giving birth and more about how to earn more, do more and enjoy life. Family looks like a ending of real life for to many folks. Motherhood sounds like a life sentence for many young women. And I think the church is showing the same kind of self-focused attitudes too.

We don't want to endure the pains and challenges of giving birth as the local body of Christ. It cost too much. If God told us, that our body was pregnant...how would we respond?

When the water breaks...everything stops and all attention is focused on giving birth. We pray for God to pour out the rain, the water, of His Spirit but are we truly willing to allow God to mess up all our plan, if He wants to bring a child into our congregational lives? Or will we opt for some religious form of abortion to kill the idea...the dream. Will we make sure everything we do has got a "religious condom or spiritual birth-control pill" covering the event...so nobody gets impregnated with the life altering works of God?

I fear we want intimacy with God as churches..but not the commitment of getting pregnant. We want the pleasure of getting close to Jesus but dont want to raise his children. We say we love Him but dont want to change shape to bear His life. It feels great being the bride of Christ...as long as we don't have to become the womb of Christ.