Not Every Season Ends

I don’t like change. Lately, changes have been happening very quickly. One sister just moved back home and another sister is taking her room in my apartment. I have just adjusted to a new personal care team and that team will change again in the next few weeks. And the list goes on. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a rushing river and just when I’ve grabbed something to hold onto the current carries me away again.

I know God never changes. I need to hold on to Him and not my circumstances if I’m going to experience any stability in life. I wish some seasons were a little longer than others. No matter how long a season is, whether in nature or in life, change is inevitable and unsettling. Every season must end to make way for new growth and new life. I knew all this but that hasn’t made it much easier to deal with all these changes. But then last night before I fell asleep God showed me something.

There is one season that will never end and that is eternity.

Nothing in this life will be here forever, not even life itself. My house, my possessions, my health everything passes away. My only hope is in God and the eternal life he has for me. I will give my whole life to sharing this hope with others, no matter what other changes come my way. God uses these changes to refine me, build my character and help me depend on Him. He does all of this because He has eternity in mind.

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” Romans 5:1-5, NIV