Transitions

Currently we are starting our transition into this new adventure of life.  We've turned in our resignation letters, started to sell things, and are beginning to tell people good bye.  We move to Richmond to start training in mid-January.  Although this is an exciting time it has proven unexpectedly challenging as well. 

I guess you don't realize the security blanket that you create for yourself until its being unfolded.  Leah and I quickly found that we have comfort and security in our jobs, money, belongings, medical insurance, apartment, family, friends, social status, and even in our breath of life.  Many of these things are going to be gone or temporarily put on hold during our transition and we created lots of worry about the "What ifs?" 

As Leah and I both shared our feelings with each other, God reminded me of Psalm 37:4. "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart."  My delight....what is my delight in?  If I delight only in Him...then why am I worried about my stuff?  Christ said each day has enough stuff to be worried about so entrust tomorrow to God...He takes care of the birds and the grass, He'll surely take care of us.  If my delight is only in God himself, then everything else is extra.  All the stuff in my false security blanket = extra! These are blessings from God and its by these things that I'm supposed to trust in Him and rest in His security and have Him be my delight. 

I had let His blessings become my security rather than the Giver of the blessings being my delight. 

I love the promise of that verse, "...and He will give you the desires of your heart."  Because He gives me the desires of my heart(which are extra) I find my security in Him who supplies my needs.

I'm beginning to realize more and more that a huge step in discipleship is to not have situational faith.  No matter what the situation, I will not lean on my own understandings, but trust wholly in the Lord.

So what about you? Are you trusting more in the gifts or the Giver of gifts?

In Christ's Love,

Andrew