Re:Verse reading–Romans 8:18-39 (day one)
“The whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth”–v 22.
As a male, I will need to be careful and humble as I speak of this reality. I do not, and will never, understand the cost that a woman pays to give birth. I watched Holly do it. I was proud of her. I prayed for her. But, I can never fully understand the experience.
In the same way, Paul compares the sorrow and stress of the present world to the pains of childbirth. Excruciating at times. More painful than we expected, and lasting far longer. We want to give up or go back, but we can’t.
As a woman suffers pain for the sake of the baby who will be born in the process, Jesus taught believers to look forward to the world that will come. Something wonderful is being born! Worth even the suffering of the present moment.
