Pregnancy pain

When biblical writers like Jeremiah, Isaiah, Micah or Paul wanted to give an idea of affliction and pain, they did so by comparing extreme situations and circumstances with the pain of childbirth. It's interesting, because none of them were women. Fairly enough, only they have arguments to talk about it.

These are bitter, violent, confusing times. From this side of the western hemisphere God still allows us to breathe. There are labor pains in many hearts, the earth cries, mothers moan for their demolished children, wives for their husbands, hatred grows between nations, wars replace the smile of God, but still, there is still hope. for this fallen world, although the devil continues in revival with the unconditional help of a good part of God's creatures.

There are labor pains all over the world, but we are not sure which child is on the way. There was no time for ultrasounds, so we don't know what kind of misery lies ahead. As things are going, everything seems to indicate that the birth will not be a blessing, nor will it bring light, but more darkness, more hunger, more crying of helpless children. The world waits for the unknown, generating resolutions and laws, and Almighty God observes in amazement the assemblies where peace is spoken, but only after the war has unleashed. No one seeks the face of God. Man trusts his Drones more than mercy and life. Are the reasons for praying gone?

Shema (Hey) Church of Christ! There is work to be done and reasons to pray. New plagues are looming over the people of God and the history of Christianity continues to add martyrs to the faith; missionaries expelled, apostles of grace who fall with their families, churches burned by the religious fury of fundamentalist fanatics. Today? Yes, today, right at this moment a soldier of the hosts of the gospel is falling. We have to pray. Enough of so much indifference to the fallacy and lies, we cannot let the conformity of a well-to-do Christianity make us turn our heads to the other side. Let us be pious, fraternal, in solidarity, because there are birth pains all over the world, signs of the approaching day of the Lord. "... because they will be days of tribulation such as has not been from the beginning, when God created the world, nor will there ever be." (Mark 13.19)

Shema, Church of the Most High! There is hope that God does not allow the pain of childbirth to bring further distress. Only a touch of love is missing, (“… love does not enjoy injustice” - 1Co 13. 6th) of unity, (“… striving to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace- Eph 4.3) of prayer (“I beg you, O Lord, that your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to revere your name.” Nehemiah 1.11).

Stand up church, we are not from Pergamum, Smyrna or Sardis. If the Eternal God wrote to the angel of your church today, what message would he give him? Meditate, put yourself in the gap. Don't let labor pains cloud your mind. Pray; Fervently, constantly, as if your life were in prayer, as if all the pains and afflictions of the world depended on your humble cry.

God bless you!