Something 'amazing' happens in the midst of change, we get amnesia. Somehow we forget, in the midst of change the pain we were in before the change began. Change is to make or become different. It's never an 'easy' process to reject normalcy even if your normal situation wasn't ideal. The amazing thing about resting in God's presence is, you stop talking. You allow yourself to hear God's reminder. What's funny is God reminds me by repeating my own voice in my head, I will literally hear a prayer I previously prayed.
A few months back I was searching for a place. My previous residence was a down size that took me 1.5 years to realize was an answered prayer. I had specifically prayed for what God gave me in that place yet because it didn't look how I expected it to look, I totally missed for an entire year and a half that it was an answered prayer. I'm embarrassed to say how miserable and ungrateful I was for so very long. God kept me in that 'wilderness' place for over 3 years, I'm humbled it wasn't longer. However a few months back it was time to move. You would think I'd be overjoyed and searching for a new place with bells on. Here's the thing, I was ready to leave but it would require change. I remember saying 'God, why does this feel like such a task? Why am I not excited about this deliverance?' But God says
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:19
Scary thing is in the midst of change, tribulation, stretching, loss, pain if you focus on those things you become consumed with your situation and not with the promise of the Father. Sisters, we have to shift from WHY to WHAT? Our prayer in these situations can't be WHY is this happening? WHY did he cheat? WHY didn't I get this job? WHY am I struggling? WHY is my health failing? WHY do I have to do this alone? and instead must become WHAT!!
WHAT is in this that I need to learn?
Here is something that I use that helps me to remember the prayers I've prayed and reminds me to accept the change I've invited through prayer.
At the end of every day, I talk to God and I give him my 3 joys and my 3 challenges that happened that day. Some days, weeks, months my challenges are the same then suddenly one day your challenge becomes your joy at the end of a day. Just because something goes from a challenge to a joy doesn't mean there isn't any pain involved. But, when you remember the prayers you've prayed it's easier for you to see God's hand in the midst of the change and it allows you to rest in the transition. Don't call a blessing a curse. You prayed for better now allow God to give you HIS BEST!
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