Are you in a fresh new season of life? Perhaps you are loving it because your skills are aligned with a great team who desire your success and are giving you the tools to achieve it. Today feels like a walk in the park. A touch of morning dew are on a row of tulips and the birds are singing just for you! For others, this new season feels more like the dead of winter. A real truth is that since Eden was lost, life now requires all of us to go through all four seasons (yep, that includes winter).

God’s Word summarizes the high’s and low’s of life in Ecclesiastes, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to destroy, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up…a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak…”

As we walk into a new career or a new surrounding, you have the unique opportunity to not only be refined by it, but also the ability to help shape it with the talents God planted in you. During this time, God has a good plan (while the devil does not). God desires not to harm you but to shape you into His image while you experience His power in this new season of life. He reminds us in Jeremiah 29, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.”

Go ahead, embrace this new journey and discover who He really wants you to be as you seek him in this time of newness. Psalm 57:2 says, “I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.”

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