Changes In Life That Change Us
I was thinking today about my failure to use the right settings on my new camera lens. Sometimes things happen that can cause us to look foolish. Maybe that's one way to keep us humble. It doesn't seem like a blessing when we have to go through a little failure. Even if it is because someone caused you to fail by sabotaging something you might have had your heart set on. Not to say, that's what happen to me in this case. Sometimes when we are used to something, like my old camera lens, but trying out a new one, it takes some adjustment and practice until we are used to something new.
In football there are times kids have to say goodbye to one coach, and hello to a new coach. It take's time to get used to the new coach. Maybe he has a new style of coaching, but even so, you need to listen to your coach.
There are times change is needed and God will allow things in order to teach us something new.
None of us like to lose, but maybe, it will help us know how not to lose next time.
So sometimes failure could be a blessing in disguise. There are times we just have to accept the fact that there's just some failures we cannot fix. Those are the ones we have to put in God's hands and move on. Learn from our mistakes. Ask God to give us grace to keep going, keep giving our best and just plain trust Him.
These are things any establishment will at times go through, including a church. It's hard to say goodbye to a pastor you love and say hello to a new pastor. The new pastor will have new visions for the changing church. He will need the love and patience of God's people. He will need to know He does not have to compete with any other pastor. He is the overseer. He is the under shepherd and the mouthpiece that God uses through Christ. He is to be prayed for, respected and honored, even if He's not perfect. None of us will be perfect until the day we meet in heaven. Part of honoring the pastor, is praying for his family consistently, honoring his wife with cooperation, in the ministry that God has given her. She is helping her husband be successful in the ministry. She is his help mate. To dishonor her is to dishonor him.
No matter what we go through in life, win or lose, we have to hold onto this fact. If we are indeed, in Christ Jesus, a saved individual, we will not lose in the end. This is our blessed hope. When we love God, by living for Him, God will work out things in order to accomplish His will for us. He does not start a work and not finish it. He has begun a good work in you and He will perform it until the very end. This is God's promise to his faithful children, to those who seek him, to those who love him. He's not finished with us yet.
Susan Nikitenko
Devotional: August 27th, 2016 ©
Philippians 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
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