Life is all about change, isn't it? And really we're just called to handle each with gracefulness, trusting God is always in control. We fight to control all life's happenings on our own because the world says we should. When we do it on our own, though, anxiety, worry and stress seep in. And next thing we know we're drowning in it, fighting to keep our head above, because we've decided to to carry the weight of the world on our own.
Yes, I speak from experience. Just in recent years I was trying hard to conform to the ways of the world and its expectations, rather than trusting what God would have us do, even if it meant going against the norm, the wealth, and the pressures from how others thought we should go about life. I still have a long way to go and it's a constant battle between how God is guiding our hearts and how the broken world thinks I should do things using my own and its faulted ways. Isn't it for everyone, though?
But He's faithfully given me peace and calmness and is continuing to change all my prideful and independent attitudes. I'm very thankful He never changes -- He is always consistent and never withholds His love, pointing us in one direction towards Him. I love dragonflies. Change can be a good thing and has been for me, but I do not want to fly in many different directions and far distances like a dragonfly, away from Him.
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." ~ Hebrews 13:8
"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." ~ Lamentations 3: 22-23
"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." ~ Romans 12: 2
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