Timing is crucial of course. Yet there is something about reaching a place where you’re grateful for all that you’ve gained and learned in one place, but it is time to move on.
It can be a number of events that together paints the sign to move on. It can be a conversation that highlights how the time in the current place has come to an end. It can emerge whilst reading scripture. It can crop when engaging in a teaching. It can even drop in when praying with others. Something that indicates that it is about time. Time you looked for the next one.
That’s not always about makng a physical move or a change in occupation. It can be that sense that you’ve got to move to the next area for study. It’s time to move to the next degree of intimacy when it comes to those relationships of greatest value.
As long as we live this life and we see things have not reached that place of perfect peace, so there’s places to go and places to grow. As long as we know this to be the case, we can be grateful for the chance to settle and develop, but be aware that there will be a time to pick up the ol’ binoculars and look out for the next one.
It’s fascinating reading the lives of others who have lived faithful lives. Noting how they went from one place in their knowledge of Christ to the nexrt and whatever they endured in their experience, they were not keen to stay in a comfortable place and get complacent. Whatever they got in one season of life, they knew it was only a matter of time before that season would come to an end and it would be time to move on to the next one.
It’s not easy to make that move. It’s far easier to feel accomplished and rest on those accomplishments. That is why it is good to get those nudges and urges to remind you that it is not about what you achieve, it’s about what God calls you to do for His glory. As long as there’s more of Him to know, there’s that understanding that there is that charge coming inevitably to move on to the next one.
Once we start looking, then it can get the engines of our beings revved up to be in pursuit of the next one – the next one that leads us ever closer hom. Home to the eternal presence of the one who has called us to Himself.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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