What was your month like in December? What did you expect out of this month? Lights and fun, that gift that you thought you would get but it was different, or maybe and expectation of what it would be like on the eve of Christmas services. This month, I had to lay down all expectations and just went with the flow of what God told me. He said, “this month would be sweet”, I was like wow, I had already had an idea of what it would be like, but did I truly know. I had ideas of oh, I will study up on Hanukkah and put a podcast out and so many other ideas. Nope that was not planned. He wanted me to stop everything. Enjoy what was in front of me. A new month, not a month of the ending of a year, but a month of recognizing God in His timing. He showed me as I walked each day to take one day at time. Don’t rush, just move in the stream of sweetness.
In this month I have had the honor of living and enjoying the people right in front of me. Seeing my mother a few times, to enjoying my precious time with my husband. Even though this season has been different, our son has not come home for Christmas we have enjoyed so much our daughter who has been home. In these seasons of change I am reminded that God if we look and see the light that is on us each day, a light that divides the busyness and the hustle to a moment of just being in Christ and enjoying that gift.
This month had a wonderful time of going away with my husband and receiving from him 7 gifts that I opened until the day of our anniversary. Day one, before I opened the gift, I didn’t know what I expected. I opened the box, it was chocolate, what girl would not like chocolate. Well, my first thought wow this started off with chocolate and it was like I was down. It was in a box that didn’t look like expensive chocolate. What I learned that day about that moment was how do I respond with a gift God gives me, or an assignment He has given me. When at first it looks okay, but when I get into the gift or the assignment it is really God. I learned that even when our spouse is doing something nice for us, there is no expectation of what we give back but how to respond? That is only something God will show you if you are willing.
As the days went on in those gifts, I learned to recognized that my husband knew me in such a way just like Jesus. In one of those gifts that was given it was nice, and something I have used and not use as much anymore, but it was like I was going to put It on the shelf when I needed it. Then I realized after sharing with a friend, how many times do we put our gifts that God has given us in a season that needs to be utilized we just put it to the side? How God amazes me in the simplest things. When I opened each gift there was layers that God was having me look at in my own heart toward the giver. How have you been in the areas of your heart in this season toward the giver? God gave this season such a great gift Jesus Christ. In this season, the Lord has said stop all things and slow down. Slowing down makes you appreciate the seasons but also know what season you are in.
I am reminded of the passage Ecclesiastes 3 :1-13, “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together, at time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing: A time to get, and a time to lose, a time to keep silence, and at time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate, a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time; also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also, that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of his labour, it is the gift of God.
This month is not done, and it’s a time of now entering Hanukkah, a time of reflection of what the Lord did in the miracles of the feast. To see what season you or I are in, and respect what each person is in at this moment. God has pulled up a lot in the last 5 months and we can see that in the pulling, the mourning, the refraining that God has given us a very important gift. The gift of discerning what season you are in. So yes, December has been sweet, and I am so grateful and thankful for God’s timing in it. To keep praying and seeking Him in all His ways. I am also reminded That God is a God who is of justice, love and most of a great Giver. Recognize the gift He has given this season.
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