Some of you prayed for the change you’re going through, and some of you just got it whether you wanted it or not. I believe many of us have been forced into change before. God brought a new unexpected start, and it was scary. Your job told you they were downsizing. A friend became ill. At work, you were asked to relocate. You didn’t ask for it, but you’re left there to deal with it.
Transitions are tough, because it’s hard to move into new things that you have no frame of reference for. I know, because whenever God is taking me into something new, He never usually leaves the new with the old. He makes me abandon the old to grab a hold of the new. Kinda like climbing a ladder; you have to let go of one rung at some point, and grab firmly the next to ascend. Sometimes it’s a good thing, especially if the old situation we were in was a bad one. However, sometimes the previous situation is the only sure thing you’ve had through up to this point. God starts saying He’s going to do something new, but all of your points of reference have been what has happened to you up until now.
Then transition comes and everything becomes unstable. You begin feeling an identity crisis, because you’re no longer one thing, but you’re not quite another. You’re stuck in the middle, stuck in transition. This is why raising teenagers is so difficult. They’re grown up enough to tell you what they want, but not enough to pay bills. They’re confused; they’re in the middle, they’re in transition.
Think about a time when you were going through a transition period in your life. You may not have known it, but you were probably difficult to be around during that time.
Faith is not faith until you have to use it. We can preach faith, sing faith, speak faith, but it’s when you’re amidst tough times, in transition, that faith is required to get you through. I can’t tell you that today is going to be the end of the change. But you don’t want the change to stop, because God knows what you are going to be, and who you’re going to become after the transition. And, with God’s transitions, it’s always better than anything you can come up with on your own.
I think this is great. Sometime we wonder why things are going the way they are.. We really just need to put our Faith and Trust in the Lord. He has everything under control.
I have been going through a lot of tough times for some time now but i know that the God i serve will bring a positive change in my life,may his name be glorified forever,Amen!
That was so on time and wonderful to hear.. I feel at peace !!! Thank you Jesus
Thanks for the revelation about going through forced transition. I am on my way to my wealthy place!
“But you don’t want the change to stop, because God knows what you are going to be, and who you’re going to become after the transition. And, with God’s transitions, it’s always better than anything you can come up with on your own.”
I know this is coming a little late…I just found your website. I like what you said about “Faith is not faith till you have to use it”. It’s like you cannot have a testimony without having a test and without a test you cannot have the moanies – now you have a ‘testimony’. The just shall live by faith. After years of having dependable jobs I find myself without one and walking in faith and being led by the unseen hand of Jesus. Knowing not where He may lead yet knowing He will never leave me nor forsake me and that I’m more important than the sparrow is enough for me. This world holds nothing of value, my hope is in heaven. Like Paul, I want to be able to declare that I am content with the things that I have b/c “The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not WANT…” may I add, b/c He takes care of all my needs, I lack no good thing as long as I continue to walk uprightly in Him. God bless you for the work you are doing!!