PAGES OF LIFE
Shakespeare likened the world to a stage and every one of us as players or actors on the stage. There are seasons and stages of life. Your life if told as a story may be arranged into various acts, scenes, and settings. In the story of your life, you are the main character, and you should be proactive in pursuit of purpose. A written story unfolds in words, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. The chapters could unfold the different seasons in the life of the main character. The paragraphs show the flow of the story within the chapter and the sentences serve their purpose in the gradual unfolding of the story one word after another.
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” – Ecclesiastes 3:1. NKJV.
In order to translate from one season to another in the story of our lives, one chapter may need to close for you to transition to your new season. The Bible is replete with instances in the lives of various people who moved from one season to another simply because a chapter of their lives closed. The closing of those chapters created avenues for new opportunities and doors to open up. Jesus the Christ said even a grain of wheat must first close the chapter on its old life in death before it can grow to bear much fruit else it remains unproductive (John 12:24).
When Saul the first King of Israel persisted in his disobedient and unrepentant ways, Samuel the prophet who had anointed him king was heartbroken; he grieved ceaselessly over him. God asked the prophet, “How long will you grieve for Saul …?” Samuel was stuck in an era which was passing away. Samuel was instructed to dry his tears, and go anoint David as King in order to move the nation forward. There are many things in our lives representing chapters which we ought to close, yet have left open, and essentially, they keep us stalled.
Our dilemma is that we like to hold on tight to the familiar (even when unhelpful and unproductive) when we ought to let go of the unproductive and unhelpful in order to be free to purposefully move towards the possibilities in the seasons ahead. To move forward, you may need to close some chapters, draw the curtain on some scenes and venture into the future in faith. In the story of your life, the onus is on you to prayerfully assess where you are, where you are going, and what you need to change in order to get there. Some things need to come to an end so that you can be free to pursue the next season or chapter of your life. Make your assessments and decide what needs to change, what needs to go, and what should stay. The move is yours to make, and you must be purpose directed as you move forward.
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