After returning home from training camp a week ago, it's easy to want to be back in that community of radical lovers of God. And with exactly one month until I launch for India, it's easy to look forward to the next season — of offically leaving the comforts of America, flying 30,000 feet to a radically different culture, and bringing the kingdom to the broken and oppressed. However, there is beauty in the waiting, if but for a season; and there are lessons that can only be learned in seasons of waiting.
Beware of missing out on what the Spirit of God is wanting to teach you by looking ahead to the resolve of a particular season the Lord sovereignly placed you in. Far too often we look ahead for the next thing, the next chapter, the next adventure that will bring us satisfaction. In doing so, we do a great disservice to ourselves and miss out on lessons that can only be learned in a particular season.
The Lord has been repeatedly speaking these words over me and I want to exhort you with such. Be humble, be moldable, be teachable, and be content where the Lord has sovereignly placed you, if but for a season. Sometimes often times, things don't go as we would like, but let's humble ourselves, replace our myopic view with the perfect plans of God, and rejoice where the Lord found best to place us in. Even when we don't know what the future holds, may we find trust in the One who holds it all and may the words of King Solomon bring you peace: "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven and He has made everything beautiful in its time."
