It seems this time of year is constantly a season of change. For one, the seasons change from cooler weather and sweaters to hot air and shorts. But this time of year always brings changes of life seasons as well. I think about this time last year, I was 21 and about to graduate college with the world in front of me. And this year I am about to turn 23 in less than a week and I am sitting at a guest house in Ghana Africa, starting month 5 of my World Race journey. Talk about a big change.
But change can be really scary. It’s facing the unknown, the not yet discovered and worse than that, you often feel like you’re doing it without your people. I know what that feels like. After I graduated high school, I moved 10 hours away from the only people I knew, but it was good. After college, I moved literally thousands of miles away from my people, and it was still good. And now, I am going into month 5 of the race with a new team and with new people, and I still believe it will be good. Ecclesiastes? ?3:1-8? reads:
“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.”
If you, like me, believe that the word of God is the truth from His heart, we have no choice but to believe that God has called us each into this new season. He has it already written down in His book He’s writing called our life so you can either accept it or reject it, but it’s still coming. We can run to it or away from it, but we can never escape it. We can embrace it or endure it, but we are still going through it.
I for one, have tried too many times to fight the will of God so here’s a piece of advice, don’t do that. Embrace what God has in store for you. It is a beautiful thing always. I did not say it will always be an easy thing but I truly believe we can and will always find the beauty in the change if we look for it. He’s created it to have beauty so we know it’s there.
So whether you’re the graduating class of 2017 or 1985, it’s time to toss your graduation cap into the air and trust this next season of life whatever it may be. I believe God has a big plan for each of us and wants to do a mighty work through each of us and all we have to do is say yes.
