Another blog about fall you ask? Well, no. Here in Zambia it is not fall, it is the “hot dry season.” So phrases about the falling leaves, color, and the way an October frost settles on the morning ground, is well, not going to be the topic for discussion.
We have had change though in this season of ministry. Change that involves prayerful action, and wise conversations. We pray for the Spirit to fall on all of us as we navigate what is next.
But as I consider the ways in which things will always change around us, I ask myself this-how much do we desire change in us? In our own relationship with God? Do we ask God to change us, mold us, and make us more like His Son? When was the last time you “gave” God permission, actually asked Him, to change you? To grow you, move you out from where you are? As everyone talks about change in terms of seasons, autumn, and the weather, let’s remember that God wants to change us. Don’t just let everything change around you.
We are to be in the process of sanctification. Moving toward the perfection we will only gain when Christ returns to make all things right. I know I need to change….because none of us are ever done. So what am I, you, doing to change? We need to spend time with the One we want to be like. We need to study the Word that He gave us, and we need to be in worshipful communion with those who will sharpen us like iron, all done with the power of the Spirit, who indwells in us. Challenging for me and I hope for you as well.
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:6
