Change

There have been many times in my life where I craved change. So I took it into my own hands and made a change: cut my hair, moved the furniture, changed my scenery, etc.  It's usually a time when I am feeling discontent with the same-old, same-old.

C.S. Lewis wrote something that shed a lot of light on this matter for me. He said,

"He [God] gives them [humans] the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme."

Which got me to thinking. The change I tend to long for so strongly actually happens naturally. God has designed the world in a way that it already satisfies the very desires He put in me when He created me: to long for something new and fresh, yet still desiring permanence and dependability.

I want to remember to embrace the natural changes that happen in my relationships, my setting, and my world (like Spring!), meanwhile, thanking God for the consistent, predictable things (even the situations I may grow tired of and dismayed by).

... 'Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.' - Jer 5:24 ESV

Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth." - Hsa 6:3 ESV

Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field. - Zec 10:1 ESV