Be Joyful Mail Club - March Letter

Be Joyful Mail Club

Greetings, friends! 

Spring is almost here! We are reminded once again that seasons change, both in nature and in our lives.

We all respond to change differently. I personally do not love change. I prefer routine and knowing what’s coming next, like the four seasons of the year. They come in order: spring, summer, fall, and winter. I can anticipate and prepare for these changes. They are orderly changes.

Except having orderly change all the time in this broken world is unrealistic, and even the four seasons can surprise us. Think of a time when the weather caught you off guard, even though you thought you were prepared! It happens a lottttt. If I’m honest, I struggle to see change as good. I get attached to things. But the ability for things to change is not always a bad thing.

In one of my favorite books by Jen Wilkin titled None Like Him, she writes: “In truth, I am telling temporary, changing things, ‘I need you to be God. Please just stay the same.’ But the worst part is not that I ask the world around me not to change, or to at least act convincingly as though it is not. The worst part is that, when confronted with my own entrenched sin, my immediate defense is to say, ‘That’s just who I am. I can’t change.’”

Except the only One who does not change is God. He alone is immutable; that title belongs to Him.

And that is good news for us! We do change! In Christ, we are a new creation. So at any moment you are tempted to fear the seasons of change in your life, remember that though things are bound to change because only God stays the same, not all change is bad. In the same way God brings good change in us, He brings good change around us. Nothing is wasted in God’s hands. Nothing escapes His sovereignty. 

Whether the sun shines brightly above you right now, whether clouds have made their way into your sky, or whether a rainbow has appeared celebrating that you made it through the storm, hold on to the promise that God does not change. He stays the same through it all. Let your hope rest in our immutable God.

 ☆ Scripture to memorize ☆

“Jesus is the same yesterday and today and forever”

– Hebrews 13:8