Today I said my goodbyes to my co-workers. Although some three thousand miles away on the East Coast, I'll still continue with the company. It wasn't an emotional time, but more like a closing door, gently being sealed shut. They remained inside while I found my self passing through the halls, rooms and through the main door for the final time.
After fourteen years the season ended on a high note with much accomplished, both personally and in my current position. During my tenure, I'd held three positions, gained many friends and experienced seasons of pleasure and deep, saddening pain.
Strangely, after all these years there is very few things that I can recall that was outstanding, but I know that a different Andrew is leaving the Pacific Northwest.
Perhaps, it can be best described by Ecclesiastes 3:3 which says, "a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build," (NIV).
The journey with Christ has various times and seasons, often cyclical.
There is a time to kill - dreams, intents and desires that may be noble and good, but God's plans far exceed our own, and we learn to sacrifice them for the sake of His kingdom. Then those things that God so determines will be added (not subtracted) from us.
In our dying to self, God brings us into a season of healing where we are restored, refreshed and our souls are satisfied. Then a season of tearing down begins - whatever the Lord decides, it can our idols, walls of indifference or bitterness, etc. Followed by this season begins a time where the Lord rebuilds, strengthens our foundations and girds us up with renewed strength.
What season are you in? Can you trust God to bring you in and through this time where you are made more like Jesus?
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