John 16:21-22
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no-one will take away your joy.
As much as there is pain and anguish there is great hope too, just as a woman with excruciating labour pains suffers with the hope that she will be able to see her bundle of joy! But, bear in mind always, anything can go wrong. The mother could die and not see the child and the child could die not seeing the mother. This has happened to many before. Child birth is a matter of life and death. Do not take any thing for granted. Like wise, so is Christformation in you!
The link from the mother to the child is the blood. So is it with Christformation in you. The link with Christ and the believer is the power of the blood of Christ. The power of the blood of Christ paves the way for full Christformation in you. Full Christformation in you is the promised eternal inheritance in Christ.
Hebrews 9:13-15
New International Version (NIV)
The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.
