Growing up in the military you quickly learn not to get used to your surroundings for very long because the military would always have another station or new orders for your dad to carry out, and your world and everything around you could change very quickly. I can remember as a kid celebrating the last day of school in the 4th grade and anticipating the beginning of summer. The last bell of the day ringing, the excitement of the walk home with an empty backpack except for the stuff I had cleaned out of my desk. Summer's seemed to last an eternity then. I opened the front door of my house excited to begin the long hot Missouri summer to find out that we would be moving to Germany for the next 3 years.
Change can be a stressor, sometimes we have a warning that it is coming, sometimes we walk through a door and it is there to greet us and in one instant we are going a different direction. "We would like for you to consider retirement now...", "The test results are positive...", "We are moving the company in a different direction..." "We would like for you to consider moving to another office located in another state...", no matter how the change hits it takes a moment, we take a breath and in that moment we come to a fork in the road. There is a choice to make or perhaps the choice has been made for us and we are to just follow the assignment. Those moments can bring us to a place we never thought we would be five minutes ago, because five minutes ago it was just the beginning of summer right?
Change brought us from Missouri to Oklahoma, my wife was offered an opportunity with a local hospital and after weighing out everything and looking at all of the changes that this meant we had questions, BIG ones.
Change many times often makes us ask questions, Germany? where is Germany ? Why did this happen to me? how does this happen? It is within these moments of change that I am so thankful for my relationship with Christ. Without Him all you have are questions, but knowing Him, having a personal relationship with Him, you get the answers. You are able to bring those questions to Him in prayer, to talk with him about how you feel. He loves to hear us ask why, how, and where, more importantly He loves answering us. If you feel wronged by a friend, an employer, a spouse, a parent, tell Him, talk with Him. If you don't understand something that is going on in your life, ask Him to show you why. He knows you, He understands you more than anyone. He loves you and it is His joy to draw you closer to Him. He is in pursuit of you and that is perhaps all the more reason for big changes to happen and big questions to come about in your life for I have found in those moments I draw nearer to Him, rely on Him, not to just get me through it, but to get to know Him more. Many times we go through our Christian walk when change hits us feeling like we are barely holding on to God, when in fact it is He that holds us the entire time.
How wonderful that the cost of this change of knowing Him, the full price has already been paid by Him, He has already paid with His life, all we have to do is accept Him.
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