As I was taking my morning walks this week, I could begin to sense the change of seasons in the air. I love this time of year, the transition from summer to fall. I especially love walking on the beach during this time, the smell and feel of it all.  So as I was enjoying all of these changes in the natural, I began thinking about how many people I know that are going through major transitions in their own lives right now. Their personal seasons are changing. In these tight economic times we are living in, some of our friends have lost jobs, lost incomes, changed jobs, changed homes, switched schools, switched cars, etc.  You name it, and change has been going on.

I began to pray more as I walked, and felt the Lord say to me, “The old has to pass away to bring in the new“. But of course!  Isaiah 42:9-behold the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare.  That is it! I keep looking at all these life changes in the negative and how bad they are, where Father God wants me to see them positively. He is doing new things! Just like the seasons, the old has to pass, be left behind, so the new can come in. But I like the old! I like the comfort and security of the familiar.

Changes can really be looked at as new opportunities- “new beginnings”. The Word says that God will work all things for good (Rom.8:28). What if I go beyond merely accepting these changes and actually embrace them? Can I stay excited and at rest, looking more to Jesus as my supplier, my healer, my total and complete Savior in all aspects of my life? He keeps telling me to press in to Him, to seek Him for all I need and not worry about all the changes around me. I want to be someone who will allow the old to pass and to embrace whatever new thing God wants to do in my life. Just as there are seasons in the natural, so are there seasons in our spiritual life. Lord, help me be sensitive to see these transitions in seasons as new opportunities.