Rearranged

Have you gotten an urge to rearrange your living room? Change sounds nice. Moving everything to a new location makes it look so good that you wonder why you never had it this way before. Have you ever felt like you went through a season of internal rearrangement, but instead of enjoying it, you feel like “where is everything at now?” 

Change can be fun. Change can be scary. Change is a factual part of life, such as growing up or moving out. Change is received best by ourselves when we choose it. Change is much harder when it feels forced upon us. Father God is a gentleman; however, He knows what is best for us. He knows what will get us through the desert. He knows what will get us up and over the mountain of change. Change cannot be forced upon you, but it is up to you whether you fight it or yield into it. You don’t HAVE to do anything. The question is, SHOULD you? 

I have written a blog about surrendering, but just as Shrek says, “Ogres have layers,” so does surrendering to change. I have gone through an intense season of recognizing change coming, trying to figure out where to even start, surrendering to the Holy Spirit, and making forward movement in change. It has felt scary, numbing, stressful, sad, but with tiny glimpses of hope. I wish I could say that it has been more positive than negative. Ask a pregnant woman who just gave birth if the baby coming out felt better than holding the baby—— uhhhh I am not sure we will ever meet that lady! The end result is satisfying, but the current status can be painful and chaotic, sometimes stressful, and sometimes you have to pivot because the plan was not working. Coming back to the simple things is what is needed—to stand on a firm foundation during change. 

Prayer, worship, and reading the Bible to encourage you. Surrounding yourself with people who will speak life into your circumstances and rest are huge factors in this process. There are no x, y, z steps to get through this process of change. There is, however, taking one step at a time and taking one day at a time to get through the change. Be gracious to yourself. Be in conversation, (prayer) with Jesus for help, strength, and guidance. Remember that He is ALWAYS strong when you are WEAK. You cannot make it through change based on performance, or you will end up on this roundabout again! No one wants that! 

Are you willing to let Jesus rearrange the furniture in your heart to make room for different, other, or better things? Are you willing to take your hands off to let Him? Are you willing to even rearrange once you know it is time to? Do not let pride and fear get in the way. Jesus did not give us either of those things, so why would they let those voices in our minds and hearts? 

If it is time for a change. Where would Jesus start?

Be Blessed,

Megan Stockwell

Sanctioned Love