Change is never easy. I remember being hired as a family pastor at a church and thinking to myself, “I can finally plan the next 10 years of my life!” However, if you don’t know by now, that’s not how God works.
Looking back at the last 10 years of my life, I don’t think I had any consistent years. What I mean by this is that one year I was a youth pastor but the next year I was forming a brand-new contemporary service. Then the next year I was called to church plant, then the next year our world shut down, then the next year our church plant took many different forms.
By now you would think I would be used to change, but every time God called my family to pivot, our church to pivot, I did it with a reluctant heart. I think I was at peace with the changes in my life after I read a particular verse in the Bible.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” ( Isaiah 55:8-9)
One of the signs of a mature Christian is how well we obey and trust God with our life and that is a 2-step process. First, do we trust God? In other words, do we have confidence and security in God as He directs our lives and decisions? Do we know in our soul that God is in control? If the answer is yes, then, do we obey God? Do we submit and give all authority to God and act according to His will?
You see, If We just trust God and not obey then we’re saying we acknowledge God is in control but will not give Him control. And if we blindly obey God we’re saying that we give up all authority to God and that might sound like obedience until His way is not our way and that can end up in us blaming God. This is why we need to trust and obey God and we do this by reading scripture, fellowshipping with other believers in small groups, engaging in corporate worship, and most of all spending time with God in prayer.
The more and more we trust and obey God, starting from the little thing leading to major life decisions, change becomes normal.
So, you see change isn’t bad if you know God is leading the way.
God Bless you.
