The season is changing so fast! Two weeks ago when I was walking I saw the leaves changing colors. Now everything is changing, the sunflowers are withered and ready to be harvested, the guys are cutting wood to prepare for winter, the hay is being cut and the last of the fruits and vegetables are being sold and prepared for the winter. Whether we like it or not it is changing! It is how God created it! You can embrace the change and prepare for it or get stuck in the cold! If I decided that I did not want to change with the season and kept my shorts and t-shirts out, it wouldn't matter, I would get cold, the season will change whether I want it to or not!
Isn't that how life is, everything changes, we can fight the change but eventually we will have to succumb to it! God has a plan and it was designed before we were born and He already knows when things will change and how we will get through, we must embrace it and move forward with the change and plan.
The seasons we know will change, winter to spring, spring to summer, summer to fall and then to winter! What about the things we don't know about, what do we do when things change and we can't, or feel we are not prepared for it? The truth is that we are already prepared, we just don't know it. Remember, God has a plan and we will move into that plan if we like it or not! We can step out in faith and obedience and change with the plans or we can stay in our shorts and t-shirts and freeze!
Really, none of us think we are prepared for life changes! Joshua probably didn't think he was prepared to take the promise land and fight his first battle, but he was and he did! Unprepared God directed his steps and really his first battle he did not even fight, he just was obedient and stepped out in faith and God fought for him. How about Noah, he probably did not know he was capable of building a giant boat and gathering every kind of animal to go on it, but he stepped out in faith and obedience and God did the rest! Moses!? He freed an entire nation and ran to the Red Sea with them, ooooppss! I bet he thought, "Now what was he going to do?" But he was obedient and stuck out his staff like God said and the rest is history! I bet none of these guys were prepared for the changes God had in store for them!
There are some days when I feel so ill equipped, not capable, not able to keep up with things that are changing so fast. So very fast, really! There are times when I feel I am at the Red Sea, and say, "Uh oh! Now what am I going to do." Well, I can stand there and let the enemy defeat me, or I can listen to what God says to do and trust and move forward! You know when I do that, the Red Sea parts every single time! And, every single time I am surprised! It's part of the plan, part of the season change!
We all have this change and plan in common. It doesn't matter where we live, who or what we serve, how much money we have or don't have, job no job, ministry no ministry, fat or skinny, tall or short, young or old! God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives, we can embrace change and step out in faith and obedience to move forward or we can be defeated and freeze. Either way, it's God's plan!
I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. "When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen. "When you come looking for me, you'll find me. "Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed." God 's Decree. "I'll turn things around for you. I'll bring you back from all the countries into which I drove you"—God 's Decree—"bring you home to the place from which I sent you off into exile. You can count on it.
Jeremiah 29: 10-14 (The Message)
