Change - something different; A new life chapter.
Some changes we see coming on the horizon. We anticipate and plan necessary adjustments to this coming new thing. Our brains wrap around what will be different in our lives. It may be a life event that we anticipate with great joy and expectation...
Other life changes are BAM! We were here and now we're there; We were doing this and now we aren't; We had this person in our lives and now we must live without them. Abrupt. Shocking. Good... Yes good, because God is with us. He is holding our hand and He was not surprised by this change - He is working it for good in our lives whether we can wrap our understanding around it or not. How beautiful the verse is "and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." (Phil 4:7)
These abrupt changes cause our human mind to desire to understand, to regain control, to plan and figure it out, to move ahead in our flesh. God's Spirit within us reminds us instead to rest in Him and His faithfulness; to know He has a plan and is in control and knows every step we will ever take EVER. Hebrews 4:9-10 says, "There remains therefore a rest for the people of God, For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His" and Isaiah 30:15 reminds us that "in quietness and confidence shall be your strength". When I rest in the Lord the whirlwind in my mind quiets. I become confident that God is not dismayed by this turn of events and He is upholding me - covering me with His wings and working this for good in my life. Ahhh! Deep breath and sigh of thanksgiving.
Opening His Word I find verses that minister to me and that I can hang onto through this change. They are promises. More real than any situation I face. So I take those first faltering steps and grasp His hand and look up at Him and then take another step and another and little by little I move forward and begin to relish in His peaceful presence guiding. Ahhh! Another deep breath and sigh of thanksgiving...maybe I am even to the point where I speak my gratefulness.
The Bible...those verses He shows me and I highlight in my Bible, or write them down to carry in my pocket and remind me every time I look at them, that God is faithful and He loves me! Me, an unworthy sinner that he plucked out of the lost world and put His holiness upon me because of what Jesus did for me on the cross! Ahhh! Another deep breath and more thanksgiving - maybe now I am singing praises to God with tears of joy flowing.
Change - it will always be. Thank you dear Lord that you are ALWAYS and forever God! You are God and there is no other. "Who is like You, Lord God Almighty? You Lord are mighty and Your faithfulness surrounds You. (Psalm 89:8). You are already there in this change holding me. I will hold on to You too!
