“There’s a season for everything and a time for every matter under the heavens”
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-
Lately I’ve been thinking about the seasons that our lives go through at times, mostly because I am in a new one, and actually it’s not just one new thing but it seems as of late that the norm of what I was used to my life being is no where near where I am now. What’s more is that this “new season” has two levels to it.
Level 1: College Graduate
For the better part of the last decade I have gone to class, studied, took tests and worked to get a bachelors degree. On a very large level college was the only constant that I had for nine years. Now that is a something that has been accomplished. It’s a thing of the past. Something yes that I am very proud of, but something that is very surreal to label as something I did in the past.
Level 2: Went from Youth Director to Lay Associate Pastor
The other part of this new season is my job change at Edge Park UMC. At the beginning of January I was offered a great opportunity to be the Lay Associate Pastor at Edge Park. This is an opportunity that I honestly never thought would come in my life, but especially this quickly after graduating. One month I was graduating from college and the next God was placing me as a Lay Pastor at Edge Park. That in and of itself can be overwhelming.
So, here is a question. In the new seasons of our lives what do we do? How do be apart of this season. I have come to believe that just like other areas of our lives the seasons that we encounter are also opportunities given to us by God to show that He is still faithful to us.
I am so incredibly blessed to be where I am in my life. I am very humbled by the opportunities that God has set before me. It is in that realization of how blessed we are to have what we have that we truly engage our heavenly father. It is a type of worship. To embrace the new season with the child like faith that we are called to live for the glory of God.
All of us encounter new seasons in our lives. Some of you may be in one right now. So, this is my prayer for these seasons.
Holy God,
Help to draw more near to you Father. Not just during new seasons or old seasons but in every season. Help us to acknowledge your presence in these seasons and give us the strength, wisdom, courage, and strong faith in your plan. Thank you Father for blessing us with the gift that we don’t deserve, your Son Jesus Christ. Help us to always glorify you in all we do. In your Son’s Holy and Precious Name we pray.
Amen.