The trees are about to show us how lovely it is to let things go.
I love Fall and watching all the change of colors on the
trees and bushes. The beautiful colors that blanket New York can be breathtaking. This year seems to be more colorful than previous
years.
Maybe it’s me. Maybe I am finally taking the break to see
the colors.
I also have mixed feelings about Fall because I know winter
is right around the corner. For us in
the upstate, winter can be brutal at times.
Mind you, I love snow.
Well, actually I really hate the cold and doing anything
that requires me to wear several layers of clothes. But I do love looking from my window as the
landscape is blanketed by a soft snowfall during Christmastime. I am definitely not a fan of driving in it or
shoveling it out of my way. Once Spring
comes back to town, I am excited to see the flowers and leaves once again after
a long winter.
The one constant in our lives is change.
Agreeing with change does not mean we walk away from the
foundation that God gave us. Accepting
change means we are letting God work in and through us. Change means we allow God to add or remove
things, people, or our plans so that He can accomplish His ultimate plan for our
lives.
Solomon knew about change when he wrote Ecclesiastes.
Nothing can stop time from marching on. Except God.
Remember that story about how God stopped the sun from setting?
Joshua 10:12-14
On the day the
Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence
of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon, and you, moon, over the Valley of
Aijalon.” So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged
itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped
in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. There has
never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a
human being. Surely the Lord was fighting for Israel!
Now that is my kind of God!
One that not only created the universe, but One that can stop the sun in
its tracks!
Each day - time marches on with change. We can take it one of three ways.
Ignore it.
Stick our heads in the sand like this ostrich and pretend it
is not happening. When I ignore change,
I end up frustrated by its sudden knock on my door.
This picture says it all.
Fighting change is probably the most unproductive way to live our
lives. I am not saying I haven’t fought
change in the past. I have and often
continue to fight change. My prayer life
helps me to see things in God’s perspective and not my own.
Embrace it.
Embrace God’s plan for your life. We can make a plan, but God determines our
steps, remember? God sees the beginning
from the end of our lives. We should
trust He knows what is best for us. When
we allow God to change things in our life, we are giving our will over to His
plans. Remember the picture at the
top? Without the falling of the leaves,
new growth can’t happen in the Spring. Let
God bring change in your life to create something even better.
Today ask God to help you embrace change knowing you have an
All-knowing God who can handle it.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
There is a time for everything, and a season for every
activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to
plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear
down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn
and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time
to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to
give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to
mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to
hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their
toil? He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in
the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.
Proverbs 16:9
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord
establishes their steps.
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