No one plans for a hard season in life.
They come out of nowhere often brought on by an unexpected change or loss in life. In them, we can feel directionless, unmotivated, emotionally or spiritually dry or just stuck.
For believers, Gods promises can no longer feel real when we are in a season that feels like a desert. We might feel abandoned – I did at times.
We may feel stuck, however, God is not.
With the help of Holy Spirit we can begin to reclaim the truth of God’s love for us and attentiveness.
Developing Hunger
Hard seasons create a gap in our lives allowing needs and pain to surface. This is how a desert season can become a powerful place of growth. The felt “dryness” can be an opportunity for us to run to God and seek His heart.
When it seems like nothing is moving in our life, often God is doing His deepest work.
It is important to combine faith with honesty in these seasons. Being truthful about our fears and pain before God creates the opportunity for all that He is to fill us and heal. The “dryness” is meant to draw us closer to Him, not consume or destroy us.
We can ask Him to show us what He is seeing. God does not intend to leave us in these seasons. His heart is to cause us to live in abundance in Him and fill our future with hope in His good purposes (Jer.29:11).
Something is happening. God is working.
Out of the desert seasons in my life, God has worked a deeper sense of the reality of how present He is, grown my trust in Him and weakened the strongholds of fear in my soul.
Never Alone
God will highlight passages of scriptures, lyrics to songs (even secular songs!), scenes in movies, words of friends and many other things in order to get His message of love to us and pull us through a tough season.
Though we may feel abandoned, we are not.
In faith we can look and find the ways He is moving, even if it is not exactly how we want Him to be moving right now.
He has a plan for us to emerge from this place stronger, and more connected to Him as sons and daughters.
Remember this: this hard season is not the final destination. You are going through it not to it.
The desert is not meant to define us. It is meant to find us and bring us into greater freedom.
God is not hiding from you and you are not hidden from Him.
Let deeper relationship with Him become our focus in every season. He is already drawing us closer. All we have to do is say “yes” to the relationship.
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