It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C.S. Lewis
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The result is that through this imitating he becomes, in the measure permitted to him, the same as Christ whom he imitates. 'He who says be abides in him', says John, 'ought to walk in the same way as he walked'. But since human beings are conceived by their mothers in order to be formed and once they are formed are brought to birth through the pangs of labor, we can ask what is meant by the words, 'with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!' We can take 'travail' to mean the anxious care with which he was in labor so that they might be born in Christ; and now again he is in travail because of the danger he sees them in of being led astray. The anxiety of such concern about them, which leads him to say that he is in some way in travail can endure 'to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ, so that they may no longer be carried about with every wind of doctrine'. Hence, it is not in reference to the beginnings of faith by which they were born, but concerning the strengthening and perfecting of faith that he says, 'with whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you'. ~ A reading from Augustine's explanation of the letter to the Galatians, 5th century
(...in other words, our eggs must be hatched) Thanks Fr. Mario for the cute picture.
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