God is With You!
I love this time of year as the mornings are cooler and crisp, the trees are getting ready to change, the sound of the band, football, and school throughout the week. The changing of seasons should cause us to appreciate them. I remember being in southern Florida for Christmas several years ago and it just didn’t feel the same. Why is that? Partially because my perspective was on the physical things around me rather than the truth of what Christmas is about. Some people become depressed around Christmas, and I would submit to you that it is because they have an improper perspective. They may be recalling how family came together, presents were given, and food was in abundance. That places the focus completely on external things and will eventually leave you longing and empty.
In theology, there is a term that I want to insert here to help you understand the point that I am pushing. The Immutability of God is an attribute that God is unchanging in His character, and covenant promises. Things, seasons, times, etc., will always change around us but God does not! If our perspective (point of view) is set on temporal things, then we will eventually be left trying to hold on to something that is shifting or depressed because it isn’t the same.
When your son or daughter gets married, it is the start of a new season in their life. If you as the parent, want to keep it like it was before the wedding then it will get uncomfortable quickly. You now need to see (perspective) your child in a new light…they are married and building a new family. The perspective of raising children should never be to keep them as cute 4-year-olds, it should be to raise them up as arrows and send them out to fulfill the destiny and purpose God assigned to them.
Proper perspective helps us step into God’s divine timing. Just as the seasons change, we must recognize when God is changing something or opening a new door. The key to spiritual breakthroughs is time. One must be in tune with the Holy Spirit, to secure major breakthroughs in life. We must have the mind of Christ to understand His divine timing.
Today, I encourage you to ask the Lord to help you have the proper perspective to walk in God’s divine timing. The temporal things will almost always distract you from what God is doing in the Spirit. Ask God to give you spiritual eyes to see what He is up to and what part He wants you to play. In my Thursday Thoughts, I highlighted how Phillip (in Acts 8) walked in God’s divine timing and saw miraculous breakthroughs in Samaria and along a desert road. His proper perspective positioned him to be exactly where God wanted him to be. Check out the message from Thursday here.
God is advancing all around us, can you see Him? Ask Him to give you eyes to see.