Environmental Decay

Dear blog world,

I have missed you so. School has taken all of my typing and used it for grades. But the semester is coming to an end and I'm eager to let you in on what God has been teaching me.

I'm currently at a very crucial point in my life: transition time.

Transition time is the edge of a cliff, but this edge can be viewed in two different ways:

1.) Scary, awful, dark hole.

2.) The edge of greatness. (Still scary)

This transition in my life is a big one, because of the full effect that it is having on the world around me. And full transitions are always preceded and surrounded by trials, heartache, and smelly decaying environments.

When Moses's time for transition out of the palace and into the desert came, it was preceded and surrounded by him killing an Egyptian and the Pharaoh's anger toward him because of it. God was not taken by surprise by this event, it was what needed to happen in order for Moses to go into the desert and take the next step in the grand plan God had for his life.

Lately I have wondered why the environments around me have felt smelly and decaying. I've wondered why I've become more frustrated with them and why the passion I formerly had for the things in my life had shifted. I wondered why it had become harder to deal with people in my life and why the incredible amount of patience that God had given me for the environment I had been in, seemed to be hidden away or completely gone.

At this point I was examining my life and asking God, "Why do I feel so frustrated all the time?"

I had been feeling like soda that was shaken and ready to explode, but afraid of the mess it would make if it was freed.

Where I was at had been the right place for a season, but now that season was coming to a close and God is a loving God who tries to help ease us into this change. The death of this season was a process and instead of just completely taking me out of it, God was allowing me to let it go as it died. When something is dying it becomes smelly in it's process of death and eventually decays. There are hard situations when a season is dying that are Godly and then there are hard situations that happen because we did not obey God and let go of a season, so it decays - decaying is far worse smelling than death.

Disobeying God is sinful and when we are not in-tune with or led by the Spirit, we tend to disobey God. [It would be disobedient to try and stay in the season I am in, longer than God has ordained.] It might be comfortable to stay where I'm at, but if God's Spirit has moved to where I should be at, then I will be left empty.

"Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit" - Galations 6:8

If I stay where I am - I will not be where God wants me to be. When I'm not where God wants me to be, His favor is not on me like it could be. When His favor is not on me, I'm not living in freedom. When I'm not living in freedom, my faith is dead.

Trusting the Lord means having the faith to move forward into this next season that the God is drawing me into.

"In this same way, faith by itself, if not accompanied by action, is dead." - James 2:17

So what is my next move? To take a step. To follow the led of my precious, heavenly Father who only has the best in store for me. The best is yet to come.