This was my devotional from Relevant on Friday morning. I didn't check my email until late last night, and I didn't feel like reading it then, so I visited it this morning.
I have to admit, being here is much more difficult than I expected. Nothing is different, but it all feels so different. It's exciting on one hand, but on the other it's pretty scary. This year looms so heavily in front of me, that as of last night, I was seriously considering riding this semester out and then transferring to ETSU for my last semester. That would be a really drastic step, considering that the only requirement left in my major next semester will be my Senior Recital.
All of that said, I am trying to stay positive. I shouldn't dwell so much on the painful things, but at the same time, I wonder if I should deal with them emotionally, and I wonder how. I've kind of avoided the topic all summer -which is really easy when I'm home and things feel like they're just like they should be. Who knows? This devotional really encouraged me. Things change.
One thing that I truly believe is that positive thinking and forgiveness are not things that just "happen" over time -they are choices we have to make every single day.
Faith in Change
By Matt Litton
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens."
Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV
LET'S FACE IT. We talk about change, but we don't handle change really well, and when we speak of change it isn't frequently that we can do it with our whole hearts, without the voices of cynicism falling down around us. But our faith is one built entirely on the promises of change. In fact, it is founded in the idea that change has already been resoundingly delivered. Our Messiah closed the deal on change when He emerged from the tomb. At the risk of sounding too much like Thoreau or the Hebrew mystics, maybe nature's rhythm is one of God's clearest messages to His people? Change is the actuality of life with God.
Time offers us the opportunity to embrace change, to allow the death of what needs to pass away in our own lives, allow the dawn of new creation, new creativity, new energy, and new life for our journey. The voices of disparagement and skepticism will say that I can't quit this or can't accomplish that, that I will never recover from a transgression or misstep. But when Jesus rose from the dead he guaranteed that transformation would be completed in me, a promise woven so securely into the very DNA of Creation that even nature must model its truth in the grand symphonies of its seasons.
Time offers us the opportunity to embrace change, to allow the death of what needs to pass away in our own lives, allow the dawn of new creation, new creativity, new energy, and new life for our journey. The voices of disparagement and skepticism will say that I can't quit this or can't accomplish that, that I will never recover from a transgression or misstep. But when Jesus rose from the dead he guaranteed that transformation would be completed in me, a promise woven so securely into the very DNA of Creation that even nature must model its truth in the grand symphonies of its seasons.
How can you reconcile your relationship with change through faith in Christ?
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