Seasons

I love Summer! It is very true! Of course, why wouldn't I love summer? I have been getting at least two months off for summer since I was five! However, the actual season of summer (not just my time off) is beginning to get a little long here in the slightly warm state of Mississippi. So I have had my fill. I am ready to move on to a new season. I am ready to not sweat immediately when I walk outside. I am ready for fall!

God recently brought me out of one of the most challenging seasons of my life. It was like this summer, it seemed to drag on and on. I am so thankful to be out of that season. But I am also thankful for the Fruit God brought about in my life during that season! I am thankful for what God taught me in that season as well.

So now I am sensing God move me into a new season. I don't know yet how to put it into words but God is definitely working on me. He is molding and shaping me. He is breaking chains that are binding me. He is doing something. It feels good to be in a season when I feel like God is moving in my life. I have to admit, during the long, dry summer season He just brought me through it was so hard for me to sense God's voice. But now, I have entered a season where He is just showering my life!

Now I have the task of sorting some things out. I know He has placed a high calling on my life and I am so ready for the challenge but I am struggling to find balance. I want to make a difference for His name and for His glory. I have the tendency to spin my wheels in an effort to do exactly what I am supposed to do, exactly how I am supposed to do it. Sometimes (more often than I would like to admit), God places a calling on my life and I do all I can do. Because I recognize these tendencies in my life, I have life verse!
2 Corinthians 12:9, But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me.
I constantly have to remind myself that there is absolutely NOTHING I can do on my own. My strength is useless and my efforts to control situations are completely futile!

So for now I am trying (and not succeeding as much as I would like) to be weak and let the God of the Universe handle it. But I know He is getting ready to move in a big way as He teaches me new truths about Himself and me. It isn't always a pain free process but it is always worth it.

For this season I have been really focusing on a couple of verses and they seem to really put things into perspective for me.

"Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you."
Hosea 10:12

"LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy." Habakkuk 3:2

I am excited to see what God has in store for this season. I am just going to try to stay out of the way!