Are You Positioned for Transition? Part II

First, understanding who we are is critical to making any life transition.  Ephesians 2:8-10 says “We are what God has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before-hand to be our way of life.  This is the scriptural basis for coming to know your purpose in life overall and your purposes within each season of your life.  

One of the most difficult things is accepting that when even things are seemingly bad, they are working some form of good for you.  Experiences and circumstances are a proving ground for each of us.  God already knows what we are made of and have the capability to do.  Life experiences prove to us who we are and refine the great gifts placed within each of us.  Most of us have gone through a major negative life experience leaving us to wonder why me?  Unfortunately, we have been taught to suck it up and keep going.  Very few have been taught how to analyze the circumstance to find and take away the value while letting go of all the unpleasant things that surrounded it.  When asking “why” things are happening, focus on what can be gained by you in all that you face.  What new skill can be learned? What new people can you meet or network with? What new possibilities could it open? What does it reveal about you?

Nothing in life stays the same.  The world will keep moving even if you decide to stop.  Transition is a natural part of life and how easy or hard it is is mostly up to you.  Part of transitioning from one season of life into another is allowing yourself to make the changes necessary to get to your next level.  One of the things that makes change hard is that we are too attached to the way things were.  But if we can accept that life is always changing and progressing we will avoid falling behind.  Transition is easier when we resist the urge to get comfortable where we are and embrace the fact that, inevitably, change is coming to take us into a new and hopefully better season of life.

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Who We Are - Part 1

Who We Are - Part 1

 

1.Faith: Have you ever asked the question who are we and why do we exist?  Though there are many beliefs about who we are, where we came from or how we exist, the majority of us have come to accept that we were birthed through the will of an immortal, all powerful God. 

With that as a foundation, we then ask why did God want me to be here in this space in time? To fully accept the answer to that question, we have to have a basic understanding of who is God.  How people have defined God has made or broken relationships across social, business and government networks.  After many years of studying the Word, living the Word and going through various types of life transitions I have learned that God is really who He says He is.  God is love in all its many facets.  If you can imagine Him as the perfect parent who cares for, provides and also corrects his children, you will get a greater sense of His connection to each of us and His desire for each of us succeed and have a wonderful relationship with Him. 

So who are we? Within the first two chapters of Genesis we learn that we were made in His image and likeness.  Not as much physically as spiritually and emotionally.  Why did He make us like Him? So that just as He has dominion and power over all the Universe, we could have dominion over all living creatures on earth except each other.  Since we were made to act like Him, He trusts that we will take care of His creation even as He takes care of us.  Furthermore, we learn from these two chapters of the Bible that He blessed us to work.  What was the work? To be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth and subdue or manage it well and to work the ground.  So, work is part of our responsibility to God and to each other. 

The key is for each of us to determine God’s specific intent for our lives and how He desires for us to fulfill the call to be fruitful, multiply, fill, manage and work our area of the earth.  Ephesians 2:8-10 says that  “We are what God has made us.  Each with a specific part in the body that He is building.  And as each of us comes to know and begins to fulfill our role in the body, Life as we know it will improve and become what God intended for us.  As a result, Happiness, peace and joy will always remain in our houses.  With this understanding, we lay a foundation that will help us through any type of life transition.

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