Day 131 – Turn your “Back When”….into “What Now”.
Today’s Reading: Job 29 – 31
Job 29:2-3 “How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me, when his lamp shone on my head and by his light I walked through darkness!”
Change — it can be a difficult pill to swallow. Job’s change was negative to him, so he kept looking to his past and yearning for his “Back when” God did this and I had that. If only he could have looked to God and said, “What now would you have me do Lord.” When this is our response to change, our time in change moves faster and the outcome comes quicker.
Yet, in the midst of change, many people want to look back and say, did I make the right decision, if only I could turn back the hands of time, can I just go back, or it was so much better Back When.
Change can be an act of pruning. It’s trimming back the roughage or cutting off the scraggly limbs. Both of these exercises will make the plant more beautiful in time, allowing it to bear more fruit and become even fuller. Once we make it past the change by moving forward and not looking back, we will be able to see the gifts from God on the other side.
My life has been marked by drastic changes, and this is what I learned: During change, try to handle yourself with as much grace as possible. Be at peace with not feeling like yourself until you’ve made it through. Some friendships will grow deeper and out of no where, and some friendships will fall away. God gives us the ability to calm our heart, but Grieve well and Seek your dreams. Forgive even when it isn’t easy; sometimes the things that seem easy will be the hardest overall. Lastly, I learned to keep moving forward like Lot, so I wouldn’t become a pillar of salt like his wife and blow away in the wind of change. Are you in the middle of change? Ask God what He would have you do now?
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