One of the most debilitating things in life is when we seek yesterday’s peace in today’s reality. Many of us have gone thru major hardships in life. Before the hardship in your life, your comfortability and peace of mind came from a certain level of familiarity, accessibility and manageability of specific things in your day to day. But after your hardship, those comfortabilities where compromised–if not all together eliminated. And now the new normal of your today seems unsure, chaotic and out of control. You want to feel the same joy you felt yesterday. You want to have the same access and comfort today as you had yesterday. The fact that you’re trying to hold on to yesterday’s peace is the very reason you can’t take possession of today’s peace. That relationship is over! You can’t get that job back! You can’t reverse time to avoid those experiences! It is what it is! Today comes with new mercies and new blessings. God will give you new peace for your new normal. But the only way for us to obtain this new peace is to stop chasing old peace that no longer exist. The ability to move on in life is first realizing that there in a time and a season for everything. And the second thing is understanding that God controls the seasons. If you’re struggling with embracing the new peace in your new normal-your new season, ask God to help you let go of the past so that you can take hold of the present. He wants to give you new peace for your new season.
*Tressa Jo
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