Starting Over

As the new year rolls in none of us really know how our lives will roll out.

Last year at this time, I was living in another state, happy, content, not wanting anything to change.

It was as if God picked me up, like Fred Flintstone moved things on his Bronto Skylift crane, and transplanted me to a new planet. There I was living my life exactly as I wanted it and I was catapulted out and landed in a new town, with a new church, and new beginning. I didn’t want a new beginning. I liked my old beginning. And yet, I went like a crane had lifted me while my legs tried to run in midair.

Wilma Flintstone: “Look at me Fred, I’m calm.”

Fred Flintstone: “Why shouldn’t you be? Your wife isn’t having a baby.”

–The Flintstones, Season 3: The Blessed Event

We can fight the way God is moving and the way our lives are emerging, or we can surrender to the waves and possibilities.

Surrender is more pleasant.

Eventually I lifted my arms up and said, Okay God, do whatever you want with me! But it took some wiggling and whining to get there. And once I did that, God went to work.

And now, almost a year later, I can look back and see all God did and all He had in store for me.

Change can be hard. Change can hurt. Change can mold us and make us.

Mold us into the masterpiece God wants to use.

And make us into vessels for Him, flexible and movable.

The result can be immeasurable joy and contentment. With surrender comes peace and God’s filling.  

“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.”

-Ephesians 3:20-21

How about you? How is God moving in your life? Is it time to lift your arms and say, “Okay God, do whatever you want with me!”?

We may not know how our lives will unfold but we know WHO holds our lives. And we can trust our Almighty Father who loves us and gives us “abundantly beyond all that we ask or think.”

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