Several people I know, including myself, are muddling through transitions. Some of these uncomfortable places feel like restlessness or that awkward limbo when we try to figure out God’s will for a new season.
Some transitions happen automatically because of the seasons of life: the empty nest, a new job or a special calling from the divine. Although natural transitions make us queasy, they’re a bit easier to accept than those places of questioning and identity search.
When restlessness signals a transition yet gives no apparent ending, it adds emotional stress and sometimes a period of spiritual pondering.
Who am I now and what does God require of me? Am I really hearing from God or am I just hormonal?
In these difficult open-ended posturings, it’s important to remember one thing: God can be trusted.
When we can’t see the end of the journey, God has already flipped to the last page. The Alpha and Omega has it covered.
When others try to advise us with their perceptions yet don’t really hear us, God listens fully, knowing the desires of our hearts.
When one step forward leads to a brick wall, God comforts with meanderings that lead us through the maze.
And when we languish in that most difficult of places – the agony of waiting – God provides sustaining power to help us persevere.
1 Peter 2:23 reminds us to “Entrust ourselves to the God who judges justly.”
And that’s where hope wraps us in its warmth.
When we turn over our transitions and our desire for answers to the One who is trust-worthy, he fills in the blanks.
Eventually, transitions move us into new seasons. As Anne Lamott writes, “When God is about to do something exquisite, it starts with something impossible.”
If we learn to entrust each period of change to God, then we can adjust well and in the process – find ourselves smack in the middle of God’s will.
©2015 RJ Thesman – author of the Reverend G books – http://amzn.to/1rXlCyh
Thanks for this good post, Rebecca. An hour leading up to reading it I’m pondering ‘Trust’ and had noted: ‘To live in the Truth of Jesus is to live in the Trust of Jesus.’ Grace your way.
Thank you, Jerry, and you are so right. It’s all about trust and being vulnerable enough to let Him handle our situations. Such a blessing to know He CAN be trusted.
Great post. Was just writing a short story for something I’m working on about a woman in the transition stage of life. So cool. Your post inspired me. Thanks!
So glad I could add to your research, Holly. Good luck with the story !