Transitions are always hard. A time of transition normally means leaving something behind and taking on something new. Some transitions are exciting and some are disappointing but most of the time you are filled with mixed emotions and it is usually hard to sort through everything you are feeling.
My most recent transition has been an exciting one. I was able to close a chapter in my life and move on to something new. Many, many times over the past year I found myself asking "Why?" and through this transition God revealed the answer to some of those questions. It's usually in those times of doubt that God will show up and prove Himself faithful once again.
One of my favorite verses is found in Lamentations:
The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
-Lamentations 3:22-23
This is such a great reminder that every time we sin, stumble and fall God is right there with His forever faithfulness and His mercy that is brand new every single day. God is faithful. There is nothing else to it. That is a characteristic of His that he cannot deny. No matter what. How can I ever doubt Him?
This past season in my life has often been described as desolate. I felt like I was in desert, physically and spiritually. It was definitely a season in the wilderness. God even then provided me with everything I needed and blessed me with so many things that I didn't even recognize at the time. Even though I felt like I had been forsaken, I hadn't. And even though I felt like giving up, I still prayed and cried out to God everyday. And He brought me out of it in His perfect timing. As my time in the desert was ending and I was making my transition to the valley, God gave me a verse in Isaiah that spoke to me so loudly:
It will no longer be said to you, “Forsaken,”
Nor to your land will it any longer be said, “Desolate”;But you will be called, “My delight is in her,”
And they will call them, “The holy people,
The redeemed of the Lord”;
And you will be called, “Sought out, a city not forsaken.”
-Isaiah 62:4,12
There it is, His faithfulness once again. Always. And I still doubt Him sometimes but when I'm reminded of times like these, it increases my faith that much more.
When you place the pen of your life into the hand of God and allow Him to write your story, it will be so much more beautiful than you could have ever imagined.
