I’ve found it quite hard to write these past weeks, but reading a post on Shawn’s blog I found that he had managed to express, albeit in his own words, what I was trying so hard to get a hold of. Here’s the excerpt so you guys can understand for yourselves.
What I have recently realized is that although I survived the transition from one season to another, I am not doing to well at navigating this new season. If you’re like me – and I imagine that you probably are – then you try to do the same things the same way when you move into a new season, only to find out that it doesn’t work that way. A new season in God often requires new disciplines and a new approach to encountering God.
Ultimately, as we navigate the ups and downs of life, we can come to a place where our inner man is in constant communion and fellowship with Christ within and the Holy Spirit. And that is precisely why this new season of mine is a gift from God. I have been massively challenged to encounter God in meetings and emails and isolated graphic designing.
The renowned Brother Laurence taught it best.
Our sanctification does not depend as much on changing our activities as it does on doing them for God rather than for ourselves.
He said that it was a serious mistake to think of our prayer time as being different from any other. Our actions should unite us with God when we are involved in our daily activities, just as our prayers unite us with Him in our quiet devotions.
It is the same resolve that Paul had: to count all things as loss for the excellence of knowing Christ. Our relationship with God cannot be based on external circumstances. It must become an inward reality that supersedes pressures, responsibilities, blessings and trials.
What more can I say really? All my empty promises lie broken at His feet, but He has never broken one… He gives beauty for ashes.
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