Many of us are in transition, waiting on God for what’s next. But the truth is this, while we are waiting, we still have to do what God expects of us. For instance, we will have to show up in our current positions no matter what. Meanwhile, it’s expedient to ask God to strengthen us daily, to push us forward even when we don’t feel like moving.
Transition in the Walk of Faith: My Experience
The simple definition of the word transition is the process or period of changing from one state or condition to another. It’s a shift, a progression, an evolution, a switch, a change in season, or a transformation. When I think of the waiting season and transitioning, I guess I can’t help but think about the seasons. We have four seasons, and these seasons, even though I like one better than the others, all come with lessons. They come with shift and growth; that’s if we allow ourselves to learn from the lessons they bring.
Personally, I have been waiting on God for some time now for many things. So, I’m not wrong if I say my whole life has been experiencing shifting due to that. You may have experienced similar. Or perhaps you are still going through your wilderness in your walk of faith. I’d want you to know that regardless of what you are experiencing or where you are in your transition, this could be in your family concerns, relationships, or shift at work; God is in the midst of them all.
Your part in all these is to keep your faith firmly rooted in God. This is being fully persuaded and convinced that God’s promises will manifest in your life, regardless of what you are going through or the opposition from anywhere. Only learn how to have faith and keep it alive by living it out daily, even as God helps you accomplish His purpose for your life, family, and the life of everyone around you.
What does Faith Walk 2.0 mean?
There’s a difference between having a perspective or an ideology of religion and walking in religiosity versus having a personal relationship with God. Religion leads you to do things in order. Like you have to go to church, when you pray; when you pay your tithes, you are good to people, and it ends there. These sound more like self-righteousness, but there’s a difference when you have a personal relationship with God and live out your faith daily. There’s a different kind of conviction that comes with that.
That said, what walking by faith means is this: even though we don’t see God physically working in our lives, we believe and trust that He is carefully molding us into what He desires us to be. He is preparing us fully for His blessings and working to give us relief from every difficulty and the hard time we may be experiencing.
It also means that we should keep praising God and rejoicing through those hard times and pleasant experiences, knowing that He is still in control. That’s why 1 Peter 1:8 says, “Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.” (NIV)
The Long Walk of Faith
Perhaps you are experiencing some challenges or in a blur season, and you don’t understand what’s happening to you. I’m here to comfort you with some of the life-changing words God gave me. He is doing a new thing! This means that your perspective, wisdom, knowledge, everything you knew or experienced before are in the past. So, leave them in the past and allow God to shift your perspective, cleanse your mind, open your eyes, and align you with what He’s doing right now. To you, He might not be doing anything right now. But that’s not true; the only thing is that you can’t see it because you are still stuck in the past.
But be sure of one thing; God’s Word never goes back to Him void. It always accomplishes the reason God sent it. God opened my eyes to some Scriptures in my walk with Him. It was very comforting when the Holy Spirit gave me these Scriptures. Hence, I will be sharing some of them with you here.
- Isaiah 41:18 (NIV) – I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into springs.
- Isaiah 43:19 (NIV) – See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
- Isaiah 43:16 – 21, and
- Isaiah 55:8-11
So, I want to encourage you to keep doing what God has asked you to do. Trust and believe that God’s plan for your life will certainly come to fruition. He’s a faithful God. Hence, you can trust Him. He will never fail you because it’s not His nature to fail. This should encourage you to reflect on His past deeds in your life. Those past deeds confirm that He can do it again.
Conclusion
In the journey of faith, we’re naturally expectant. Hence, when we don’t see those things, we’ve been expecting, we’re bound to get discouraged. Or when our efforts produce very little or no results, it’s only normal to feel bad, to want to give up, or even walk away from God. But the truth is that even though you are faithfully walking with God, you will experience all kinds of things that you didn’t bargain for. It’s simply part of the growth process that God allows us to go through. As such, you need to continue doing what God expects of you. While at it, you must stay resilient, faithful, and obedient to Him. As you walk with Him, keep asking those questions, seeking confirmation and direction so you can have clarity of purpose in your walk of faith.
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