New Seasons

At The Vine, we’re talking about the new seasons to which God calls/brings us. I honestly believe that God calls us into new seasons often, but our paralyzing fears, subtle complacency and/or sin hinder us from entering into that season.

My wife and I are in one of these crucial moments in life right now, and we’re learning as we go. We don’t always have the answer(s), but we’re still pushing forward into that new season. As we enter this new season, the road is “foggy” and filled with uncertainty. But this is where faith comes in and is necessary. It’s so much easier to take the assured road that is filled with certainty and security but if we don’t risk anything, we’ll always have that pestering “what if” question looming over our heads about what could have been. Additionally, taking the safe and conservative route is normally more comfortable and can induce more of the same actions…instead of trail-blazing into the unknown. In other words, the more safe and conservative decisions we make, the less faith-risks we take. At the end of my life, I want to have taken way more faith-risks than comfortable, “easy-way-outs.” Life is too short to live in mediocrity, and mediocrity just sucks.

So, as we enter new seasons in our life’s journey, opportunities for faith-risks are to be expected. What will we do when confronted with such a situation? Whatever it is that we do—even if it’s one time—will be a determining factor of how much life we really lived.