Transition - A Beautiful Thing

2011 was prophesied to be the year of transition.  When I heard this I nodded my head in agreement, thinking, "Ya I'm all for that God!  I'm ready to upgrade, to go from glory to glory.  I never want to be stuck in the comfortable.  Bring on the transition!"  I mean, if I broke everything down to the main reasons I left everything to come to Bethel for this season, was for more of God and to be changed.  As a person who prefers the predictable, comfortable, routine side of life, that was a huge jump.  But I had a vision before me of what the outcome could be.  And to me, that was completely worth any discomfort that change would most certainly bring about. 

Well God seems to take my requests seriously, but God’s way of transition was far different than what I pictured it would be.  I was looking for more of a glorious transition, where things got “better” in my life.  Don’t get me wrong, I believe that everything God does in our lives is taking us from glory to glory.  Romans 8:28 tells us that “all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”  He is our Papa who wants the best for us.  Everything He does is for our good.  In saying that, not everything He does is easy, clean, or orderly.  Upgrade doesn’t always come to us in a neat little package or in the way that we want it.  But I’m finding that even when transition feels messy, painful, and chaotic, there is so much beauty in the midst of it.  Because it is the hope of greater glory, increase and upgrade that helps us to embrace transition.  Jesus endured the cross for the joy set before him (Hebrews 12:2).  He went through the ultimate transition in history: from being God to becoming man and enduring death.

So these are all thoughts that I am contemplating as I go through the transition right now.  I have gone through transition all year long, so the move from leaving BSSM back to Colorado is just one of the many.  But I am learning to embrace it as a blessing from my Papa.  It’s still funny to me, coming back to what was once so comfortable and familiar and finding that is completely different... Or more likely it is me that is different.