Change is in the Air
By Michelle Wallace
This is a season of change . Many of us are on a journey , moving from one place to another . Divine assignments and realignments ! Perhaps you ’ ve been there . Maybe , like me , you find yourself going through a change of season now . We ’ re always going through changes , but there are those watershed moments that bring major shifts in our lives and they are never easy ! Transition may be exciting and adventurous but it can also be rough .
Song of Songs 2:11:13 expresses the heart of the Bridegoom-King : The season has changed , the bondage of your barren winter has ended , and the season of hiding is over and gone . The rains have soaked the earth and left it bright with blossoming flowers . The season for pruning the vines has arrived . I hear the cooing of doves in our land , filling the air with songs to awaken you and guide you forth . Can you not discern this new day of destiny breaking forth around you ? The early signs of my purposes and plans are bursting forth . The budding vines of new life are now blooming everywhere . The fragrance of flowers whispers ,“ There is change in the air .” Arise , my love , my beautiful companion , and run with me to the higher place . For now is the time to arise and come away with me . ( The Passion Translation )
In verse 11 the rains speak of the outpouring of God ’ s Spirit that brings refreshing and prepares her to move out with him . Verse 12 explains the season for pruning has arrived . This is the part of the process that can be painful , letting go of things in the past and patiently waiting for the new thing to begin . But verse 12 ends on an uplifting note with the cooing of doves in our land . The turtledove is only heard at the time of harvest . And harvest represents abundance . Even when things around us appear to be in chaos or lack , we can live in a place of abundance when we ’ re living in our purpose .
There ’ s a story in 1 Kings about a prophet named Elijah . The short version is that God told Elijah to go to a certain brook where he would have water and food to live in the midst of a drought . Eventually the brook dried up and Elijah was told to go to a widow who had been instructed by God to feed him . This is one of those times where we see the whole story , so to us it can be humorous . It wasn ’ t so funny for the widow . When Elijah arrived and asked her for bread she looked at him like he was crazy . Apparently , she didn ’ t get God ’ s memo . She said , “ As the Lord your God lives , I have no bread , only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a bottle : you found me scratching together just enough firewood to make a meal for my son and me . Here comes the funny part , she says , “ That we might eat it and die .” Well , it ’ s funny when I read it , because I know how the story ends . It ’ s not so funny when I ’ m a character in one of these grand plays !
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14 DENTON COUNTY Living Well Magazine | MAY / JUNE 2016