The Spiritual Birthing process can be likened to the natural birthing process.
Imagine being an infant swimming in the womb of a woman. You’re seemingly weightless and touched by fluid on every part of your body. Life seems easy. You don’t have to worry about food or interacting with others, you’re just content all by yourself. Even though you know you can’t stay and that you’re going somewhere with more room, you’re unsure if you want to go. You can feel the change in your atmosphere because you’re running out of space. You’re beginning to feel uncomfortable. You’re more agitated and irritable than you used to be. You’re moving around a lot more because you can’t find a comfortable spot. There’s more kicking and stretching involved in your life, you may even feel like the walls are closing in on you. Since you’re growing, you need more food to feel full. This frustrates you all the more. As an impending feeling of uncertainty comes upon you, your environment begins to shake. It rumbles and you begin to feel underwater waves. You know time is drawing nigh and your time in this comfortable place will come to an end.
All of the frustration, agitation, irritability, and worry can cause you not to move. Maybe it’s because you know that you’re about to be forcefully pushed into a new environment. You may know that you will have to travel through a narrow path or canal in order to get to the other side. You may know that your body will be squeezed so tight that you’ll feel crushed. Is it worth it? You ask yourself over and over again, but you know a change is coming regardless. The birthing process is jarring. Bones will move and shift, and your head and shoulders will feel crushed, but you’ll come out into a new environment.
Your new environment is full of new things to learn. There are things you’ve never experienced before, but you now have to do them forever. You never had to breathe in the womb. You didn’t have to inhale and exhale, but now you do. You never felt the weight of gravity before and my goodness, it’s weighty. You never had to cry out for help, but you now have to exclaim that there’s something wrong. You didn’t need help before, but now you do. You long to hear the heartbeat you once heard. You’re longing for the old, but you can’t go back. You must keep going forward. You must allow someone to take good care of you, the best they know how or how they are led by God. You must trust someone else with your life and well being. Can you handle it? Yes, yes you can. With God all things are possible. You can do all things through Christ! God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind. You got this!