Life Change

What has changed in your life lately? Maybe it was a birthday, a wedding, someone in your immediate family finding Christ as Lord and Savior. Maybe it wasn’t something to necessarily celebrate about. A phone call, a letter, a diagnosis that suddenly rocked your world.

The other day my eight year old was talking to me. Amazingly, he was sharing some simple yet profound truths. He was remembering things in our lives that had happened. He would talk about the event, and then tell me how that brought about a “life change.” Even he was recognizing the fact that life is full of change.

Especially at this time of year we see the changes in nature. The trees are budding, flowers blooming. New baby calves frolic in the pasture. Each day the weather finds us grabbing for a coat – or trading it in for a sweater.

Life brings so much more than these kinds of changes. We consistently face different opportunities – walk among different challenges. For the Christian, each is a day to discover our Lord to be more glorious than before – and even in the hard times, when uncertainly clouds our skies; He becomes closer to us, more than we have ever needed Him to be because of how we need Him now.

There is a song written and sung by a lady named, Janet Paschal. The chorus closes with these words. “I might not have stayed as close, if I’d had my way.” Our Heavenly Father knows what we have need of even before we ask Him. How He longs for us to commune with Him the deepest needs and concerns of our heart. For when our deepest needs meet Him, in our surrender we find Him to be the Source of our solution.

We can have strong faith – for our Leader is eternally faithful. We can rest on the Rock when the winds swirl around – for His Truth stands forever. We can find His forgiveness – for His mercy lives on evermore. We can know His love – it’s Who He is.

So no matter the “life change” from the past – happening in the present – or coming in the future we serve a God who changes not. He is secure – and not one bit uncertain or afraid. With my little hand in His big One, I can trust – knowing He holds me – and with Him on my side I have no need to fear.

He is the, “I AM.”

Written by: Janene A. Dubbeld/FGG

Take it with You

“But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart throughout all generations”

(Psalm 33:11).