Seasons

I love the seasons.  Each one brings with it a fresh excitement, the potential for pleasure and new activities.  As the end of one season nears, anticipation builds within me for what is to come.  Right now I am anticipating the turning of the leaves, the crisp, cool air that will soon be the norm and not the exception.  I can smell piles of leaves burning and feel the cool breeze that makes its way through my house when I can finally open my windows again.  I love the seasons!

I think that life is very much the same.  As one season nears its end, anticipation builds within my heart and soul over what is to come.  What's next?

I find myself in this place right now, and it's a beautiful, messy, restless place to be.  There is a stirring deep within, an expectancy of a new work that He is beginning within and through me, but the vision is unclear.  What's next?

Details are hazy to me, and yet I know that, to Him, nothing is out of focus, nothing is questionable.

The leaves around me are beginning to take on an orange hue and the coolness of the new season begins to touch my skin.  But He still has not revealed to me the fullness of His plan for this new season.

So I wait.  I trust.

I am ready for a new season.  Are you?  Are you in the same waiting place as I am?  Are the details still  unclear?

Wait on Him.  He is never unclear.  He is preparing you for great things, for new seasons.

Don't run ahead, but always walk in step with the One who made you, the One who wants His best for you at all times.

"Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Proverbs 19:21

We might have many plans in mind, but the only fulfilling plan is the Lord's plan.  Let's wait on His plan together, shall we?

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Lord, my desire above all is to live a life that reflects Your goodness, Your holiness, and Your glory.  I know that the only way to do this is to live a life that is in keeping with the plans You have for me, and I want to be patient to wait on Your Holy Spirit to reveal those plans to me.  As a new season in my life approaches, would You please reveal to me in Your time exactly what that season looks like, and what my role is in ushering it in?  Would you also give me the patience to wait on You, on Your best for me, and not to run ahead?  Give me discernment, give me clarity, and give me focus.  Grow me and refine me even now so that I am ready to full embrace the next season that You bring my way.  Thank you that You see fit to use me at all, a broken sinner, and that through Your redeeming love I can be useful for the Kingdom.  Amen.