Transition can be difficult, that period of time between where you are now and where you are headed. It is even more challenging when the timeline is uncertain and the actual direction is unclear. What do you do when the only thing you are sure of is that change is coming? Do you fret and complain or do you look to your future with anticipation and excitement?
Transition is a great time to uncover purpose in your everyday life. Such a season presents the perfect opportunity to reflect and evaluate. To ponder what is valuable and what is not. Consider the transition season a time of preparation before the harvest is revealed.
In God’s word we see the parable of the weeds. Jesus explains, “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while everyone was sleeping his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. The owner’s servants came to him and said, Sir. didn’t you sow good seed in your field: Where then did the weeds come from? An enemy did this he replied. The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up’? “No”, he answered, because while you are pulling the weeds you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: first collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned then gather the wheat and bring in into my barn” (Matthew 13:24-30).
Before the harvesters could bring in the wheat they had to allow the weeds to grow along with the good seed, and then at the right time, they could pluck the weeds and destroy them, leaving only the good crop to harvest.
Seasons of transition in your life can appear to feel like a mixture of weeds and wheat. The weeds being the doubt, confusion, and anxiety, growing simultaneously with the hope, faith and joy of the harvest season. It is necessary to allow these to grow together. In doing so the wheat, that which God wants to be strong in your life, will grow to produce a harvest, and in God’s timing he will pull out that which is trying to choke, (discourage) you. It is imperative for you to trust the transition process. For in everything there is a time and season and the process can not be rushed.
God is the great harvester. He knows when and how to destroy all that will not aid you in your purpose. What the enemy meant for harm, God will use for your good and His glory (Romans 8:28). You can uncover purpose even in seasons of transition. Allow this preparation process to accomplish in you all that God intends, and you can be sure your harvest will be plentiful.
Managing transition can be accomplished with God’s help. God is for you not against you (Romans 8:31). Trust his perfect timing, trust his process, and do not resist the season of transition.
-Lucy Ann
Challenge Question:
Are you in a season of transition now? How can you be still and allow God to bring you through to the harvest?
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