Embrace

Normally when I write I sit down with the Holy Spirit and I just start writing. I usually never know what I am going to write about, I hear the Holy Spirit speaking and I write.  So when the Holy Spirit said to me, “Go get your notes from our quiet time together and write.” I became a bit anxious and nervous about writing. You would think that just writing from my notes would be easier, but I had become so reliant on the Holy Spirit. That is a good thing, but he was teaching me a new way of writing. It was like taking a bottle from a baby! 

It was so funny! I had no idea that I was being hand fed by him. I thought that I was in this great space, hearing from God and writing, but now he was graduating me. I had learned how to depend on him and hear his voice, but now he was teaching me how to use my strength with him. I can tell you, I did not like the change because I had become comfortable with the way things were! 

Every time I felt the prompt to look at my notes, I would try and write something else. My notes were not in any kind of order and it was going to be more work for me to get things written. Look at God! He was putting me to work for the kingdom, which is what I asked for, but I did not want to do it that way. God is always maturing us so that we can become all that he called us to be. 

Many times when change comes we don’t like it because we are usually comfortable with the how things are going. I remember every time my son would have a birthday I would ask him, “Are you excited to turn this new age?” He would say, “No, I like the age I am. I don’t want to get older.” Although he was happy with the way his life was, God was not going to let him stay that way. Every year he got older, whether he liked it or not, and the responsibilities increased. 

It is the same with us, as servants of the most high God, he does not let us stay the same. He is consistently growing us into becoming all that he ordained us to be from the beginning. Remember Moses started out in a palace, then as a shepherd and finally was the leader of millions. Every stage of our life has purpose and we have to embrace the changes knowing that God has the ultimate plan in mind and it is for our good! I want to encourage you to embrace the change that is coming your way because God is not going to change his mind!

Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11

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