Are All Changes Bad? #Write28DaysChallenge #Hope #Inspirational #ChristianLife

Ecclesiastes 3:1

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens

What does each season usually represent?

Change.

And like seasons, we can’t control most of the changes that happen to us.

Changes can be good. Changes can be challenging. And some changes can be heart-wrenching and traumatic.

Some people experience more changes throughout their lives than others.

Many changes act as pivot points that take us in new directions.

Whatever the changes, as Christians we can rest in the knowledge that God is in control. By relying on His guidance through His Word, prayer, and the Holy Spirit, we can get through every change that comes our way.

There are those of us who resist these changes. Resist God in general. We look at these changes as evil or undesirable. We refuse to see the good in them.

I was one of them.

Instead of turning to Him, I turned away. I was angry. Bitter. And wanted nothing further to do with Him.

I’d experienced so many different kinds of changes; I blamed Him for everything that went wrong in my life.

As a result, I spent several years floundering and wallowing in self-pity and misery.

I hated any kind of change. I resisted it.

I’m unsure of anything in specific that prompted me to turn back to Him, but I’d hit a low point where I felt so alone and my heart so miserable, I was exhausted from life and all its changes.

Maybe it was my mother’s declaration that she considered me her hero for all the stuff I’d endured.

Perhaps it was my husband telling me that I was a miracle sent to him from God.

Or, perhaps it was the constant quiet voice within urging me to give all the pain and burden over to Him.

Changes can be hard, especially if they’re unexpected. But, as Christians, we don’t have to endure them or carry the burden alone. Whatever the change, we have One who can help us get through it.

2 Corinthians 4:16

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”