Your Water Has Broken

Your water has broken

It’s been a rough week…

Battered, tossed, pushed and prodded, pushed from pillar to post. Storm tossed, weary and heavy laden.

It’s rare that God wakes me in the night. I guess he values my sleep more than I do these days!

I woke with a start. The image of a baby’s head moving inside the womb. I could see its hair brushing against the wall, against the opening. Restless, tossing and turning, I could see it pushing to break free. Then this word…

Your water has broken… A gushing forth, a rush, an out pouring an overflow. Before the expected birth comes the overflow. Before the new, comes a breaking of the old. I’ve broken the containment lines. That which contained, which comforted, which supported, which held you in, which held you back. I have broken it!!! A mess all around, a flood bursting forth. Blood on the carpet. Evidence of what is to come. For what I have held in, for what I have held back, for what I have incubated, now bursts forth! You know how I love to be literal. Did I not say, “from your belly will flow rivers of loving water!” You feel it now don’t you. You felt the release! Be released! Come forth, come out of seclusion. Come out from the place of darkness, into the light. Come out from the place of feeling, to the place of sight! What is it that you see? Open your eyes and see. For you shall not be blinded by the light, for by my sight you shall see, and move and inhabit all that I have prepared for you. There is no way back, can a baby return to its mothers womb? Can that which has come forth from the tomb, from the cave, return to it? Would Lazarus turn back, once resurrected? You remember it don’t you! Come forth, come out. Do not be surprised at the astonished look on their faces. They will look like they have seen a ghost, but it is you they see! Jeremiah 1:17-19 But you, gird up your loins! Arise and tell them all that I command you. Do not be dismayed and break down at the sight of their faces, lest I confound you before them and permit you to be overcome. For I, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city and an iron pillar and bronze walls against the whole land…[giving you divine strength which no hostile power can overcome]. …for I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you. Shake their hand. Smile. Give them a warm reception. They will look in wonder at what I have done with you. But let them feel it. Hold their hand, embrace them. For you shall be their comforter. You shall hold their hand. You shall lead them forth. You shall take them out. Take them for a walk in the park. Deuteronomy 30:9 Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors,

What is the difference between “up the garden path” and “it’s a walk in the park”?

The garden path, has no indication of destination, the park is the wide open space – illuminated so they can see and enjoy where they are going. When you are with me is there really a difference? Does it really matter? When you walk with your beloved, do you care where you are going?