A New Year - My personal direction?
How fast time has past. I know its been awhile 'again' since I've posted. I was just telling someone how amazing it is that we are almost into Spring. Our spring edition for 'KidWise' is getting ready to be published and there has been so much to do. We've been setting KICKS Club in motion with HD taping and things are moving forward and change is happening. Yet, personally, one of the biggest things I have experienced as change this year is with moving. We have been so busy moving everything in the ministry from one place to another since the end of '07. We've had to move, offices, television studios, recording studios, our editing suites, our home, and my five children. What a change!
I have moved from Ohio to California, from California to Ohio, from Central Ohio to Northern Ohio, from Northern Ohio to Central Ohio, and more and never found I was more pushed in moving than this last move. "I even had movers for some of the move!" Yet, I have found just 'one' of the greatest changes in my life has been, after having five children, now pre-school age, has slowed down every process that I do. I use to be this, "plan it and do it at the last minute" person. I was so organized I could pull off everything at the end of the race, at the final flag, and cross over the 'finish' line all in one hurdle. Ha, ha now, what an adjustment! Now, I realize what took me 3 minutes to leave my home, get in the car, and be on my way now takes 45 minutes to an hour! Isn't it funny how we face change so many times and sometimes wonder, 'How can I change?' It seems a required change in our lives is when we think we can trust in the 'arm of the flesh' we need to change and trust in , 'the ability of the Lord'! That's a truth for all of us, even my five pre-school children as they learn their ABC's and 123's in their everyday life.
What we have to remember is that 'change' doesn't always come easy but, 'new' has come. That's why people love a 'New Year'. They get a sense they can leave old things behind, good and bad, and start something new. Often times we want to try to hold on to the old because it feels secure, familiar, or is a part of who we think we are. I often wondered throughout the sale of our home if when I left would it be a difficult thing. I found the biggest battle wasn't when I left, it was in the decision to leave and trust the Lord to move on to His new thing with the decision to leave the old.
It is an awesome thing to remember that the Lord never changes. When we are required to make a change, it is the Lord's design that the change bring better into our lives. He tells us that the 'path of the righteous grows brighter and brighter'. His direction always brings His glory in our lives and we can rest in His unchangeable character as we decide to submit to His plan and divine change. Making our decisions to move forward to the new, is often times more of a battle of our changing emotions than the willingness to go there. Human emotions can go up and down like a roller coaster yet, God's emotions are set in glorious stability and wisdom.
He doesn't want us to follow the ride of our emotions, He wants us to follow His direction, plan, purpose, and His word. He wants us to set our minds on His word and our emotions will follow and get in line and accept the change. Emotions are always changing, they never remain the same. Did you know that you never experience the same emotion twice? Well, your next emotion, whether it be a high or a low consists of all the emotions you've experienced before it. One emotional experience after another brings new emotion to surface so, even your emotions are always new. As you take on the mind of God's word and His thoughts, you will find the strength of His unchangeableness in a forever changing world. His thoughts, (found in His word), that are above your thoughts, will bring unchangeable balance to emotions and reasonings if you meditate them and confess them. He brings us guidance for change in His word. Like as Isaiah 43:18-19 says,
"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way..."
How we can draw from HIS design and the stableness of HIS word. When you let God be the author of change in your lives and follow Him, you can 'rest' and trust that in His solid unchangeableness, He is the One you lean on and embrace. Change comes to us all because the Lord brings us better things all the time. "Do you not perceive it?" God's unchangeable love and blessing in our lives is rock solid, and that's where we should be unchangeable, "Standing on the solid rock of Christ" while we allow His direction to spring forth those glorious and 'new' wonderful things.
I hope you are having a great 'new' year!
Pastor Kim
I have moved from Ohio to California, from California to Ohio, from Central Ohio to Northern Ohio, from Northern Ohio to Central Ohio, and more and never found I was more pushed in moving than this last move. "I even had movers for some of the move!" Yet, I have found just 'one' of the greatest changes in my life has been, after having five children, now pre-school age, has slowed down every process that I do. I use to be this, "plan it and do it at the last minute" person. I was so organized I could pull off everything at the end of the race, at the final flag, and cross over the 'finish' line all in one hurdle. Ha, ha now, what an adjustment! Now, I realize what took me 3 minutes to leave my home, get in the car, and be on my way now takes 45 minutes to an hour! Isn't it funny how we face change so many times and sometimes wonder, 'How can I change?' It seems a required change in our lives is when we think we can trust in the 'arm of the flesh' we need to change and trust in , 'the ability of the Lord'! That's a truth for all of us, even my five pre-school children as they learn their ABC's and 123's in their everyday life.
What we have to remember is that 'change' doesn't always come easy but, 'new' has come. That's why people love a 'New Year'. They get a sense they can leave old things behind, good and bad, and start something new. Often times we want to try to hold on to the old because it feels secure, familiar, or is a part of who we think we are. I often wondered throughout the sale of our home if when I left would it be a difficult thing. I found the biggest battle wasn't when I left, it was in the decision to leave and trust the Lord to move on to His new thing with the decision to leave the old.
It is an awesome thing to remember that the Lord never changes. When we are required to make a change, it is the Lord's design that the change bring better into our lives. He tells us that the 'path of the righteous grows brighter and brighter'. His direction always brings His glory in our lives and we can rest in His unchangeable character as we decide to submit to His plan and divine change. Making our decisions to move forward to the new, is often times more of a battle of our changing emotions than the willingness to go there. Human emotions can go up and down like a roller coaster yet, God's emotions are set in glorious stability and wisdom.
He doesn't want us to follow the ride of our emotions, He wants us to follow His direction, plan, purpose, and His word. He wants us to set our minds on His word and our emotions will follow and get in line and accept the change. Emotions are always changing, they never remain the same. Did you know that you never experience the same emotion twice? Well, your next emotion, whether it be a high or a low consists of all the emotions you've experienced before it. One emotional experience after another brings new emotion to surface so, even your emotions are always new. As you take on the mind of God's word and His thoughts, you will find the strength of His unchangeableness in a forever changing world. His thoughts, (found in His word), that are above your thoughts, will bring unchangeable balance to emotions and reasonings if you meditate them and confess them. He brings us guidance for change in His word. Like as Isaiah 43:18-19 says,
"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way..."
How we can draw from HIS design and the stableness of HIS word. When you let God be the author of change in your lives and follow Him, you can 'rest' and trust that in His solid unchangeableness, He is the One you lean on and embrace. Change comes to us all because the Lord brings us better things all the time. "Do you not perceive it?" God's unchangeable love and blessing in our lives is rock solid, and that's where we should be unchangeable, "Standing on the solid rock of Christ" while we allow His direction to spring forth those glorious and 'new' wonderful things.
I hope you are having a great 'new' year!
Pastor Kim
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