Throughout the Bible there were women that were promised a child. Sarah, Hannah ,the Shunammite woman, Elizabeth, Mary. Each one’s circumstances were different, but they had one thing in common. They all had to wait. Some were given the promise long before they were ever with child. Even if they would have been pregnant right after the promise they still had to wait. Because pregnancy takes time.
If you ask almost any pregnant woman if she’s tired of being pregnant, she will most likely say yes. Because pregnancy is hard, it’s uncomfortable and it seems to drag out. Yet every single one of the women that you ask, though they are tired of being pregnant, do not want their baby to come too early. They want the baby to fully develop. They are willing to go through the process to make sure their baby is healthy.
You may have received a promise. God may have revealed to you that something is going to be birthed in you just like a mom finds out that she’s pregnant. The process takes time though. The process is also uncomfortable and sometimes even painful. You want the process to be over. You want to receive your promise. You must wait though, because if you force it, if you get the promise before it or you are ready it could be detrimental.
If you hold on though and are patient enough to see it through. It will be like when a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world (John 16:21 NET). You will be so full of joy when the promise comes to pass that you’ll forget the pain that you endured.
It is easy to get disheartened when a promise is a long time coming. Don’t think that God has forgotten you though just because it’s taking a long time for your promise to arrive. It’s just in the process. Be patient with the process, for ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise (Hebrews 10:36 KJV).
Hebrews 10:23 NET And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.