The Pregnant Woman
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★WHEN a woman is pregnant, it is natural for her body to change because of the new life growing within her. The baby inside is attached to the mother, piggybacking off of her life. The baby borrows nutrition from the mother. The mother’s body takes care of the growth of the baby naturally.
The baby doesn’t have to work to grow. It just grows and transforms because of the connection. The changes happening to the body of the pregnant woman on the inside result in changes taking place on the outside. The woman is transformed.
Her shape is changed. Milk is preparing to flow. Taste buds change. All of these changes happen naturally.
Nothing is coerced. When the Spirit of God within begins to transform us, the process of spiritual transformation is natural.
Changes on the inside eventually show up on the outside.
The point
A pregnant woman's body naturally transforms as she nurtures new life within; similarly, when God's Spirit indwells a person, spiritual transformation happens naturally and visibly from the inside out, affecting all that person is.