{"id":1265,"date":"2016-07-06T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/good-thing-god-never-changesbecause-i\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:06:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:06:54","slug":"good-thing-god-never-changesbecause-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Good Thing God Never Changes\u2026..Because I Sure Do!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I remember how much I wanted to gain weight when I was a teenager. I was so skinny they called me \u201cbeanpole\u201d. I even took Raquel Welch’s recommendation and took \u201cWate-On\u201d tablets (for real) because I wanted to look like my peers who had already \u201cfilled out\u201d quite nicely (at least in my eyes, they had).” Oh, but things changed. Now I pay close attention to what I eat, how much I eat, and being sure to stay active so that I DON\u2019T gain weight. LOL! <\/p>\n

I remember when I oiled my body from head to toe and laid out in the sun to get a tan. Now, I wear 50+ sunblock IF I go out in the sun. <\/p>\n

I remember wearing the highest heels. I told someone last week when I was looking for some new shoes with the very low wedge heels, \u201cI\u2019ve graduated from that class (she was buying some stiletto heels), now these are my new “high”!” <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m guessing that like me, you\u2019ve either just come out of a season of change, or are entering a season of change. And, your changes are even more monumental than the ones I mentioned. It might be your youngest child just graduated from high school. You might be moving to another state or looking for a new job. It might even be your spouse recently passed away.<\/p>\n

Change has a way of swirling in and around our lives. Just when we willingly, or even hesitantly, make the adjustments, more changes come. And whether we like the new that\u2019s come, or wish we could run and hide, our feelings don\u2019t change the inevitable.<\/p>\n

Facing another change, and handling it well, requires us to be people of great dependence in He Who changes NOT. Malachi 3:6 \u201cFor I am the LORD, I change not\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just maybe, times of transition are God\u2019s way of setting us up for the opportunity to grow into WHO He WANTS us to become.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m learning. I can allow the pressure of transition to transform me. I can permit the rain AND the sunshine in my life to grow His fruit in me. I can daily dish out the fruit found in Galatians 5:22 \u201cThe Fruit of the Spirit is Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.<\/p>\n

In the process of change, WHO are we becoming? During the planting, watering and weeding of change, if we will be faithful during each season, we\u2019ll see beauty grow in our lives. As we lean into God, asking for strength through the peace or through the pain, He will make us into who He\u2019s intended for us to become: We can become God\u2019s definition of BEAUTIFUL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember how much I wanted to gain weight when I was a teenager. I was so skinny they called me \u201cbeanpole\u201d. I even took Raquel Welch’s recommendation and took \u201cWate-On\u201d tablets (for real) because I wanted to look like my peers who had already \u201cfilled out\u201d quite nicely (at least in my eyes, they…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7886,7887,3403,6650,7888,7889,232,7890,7891,7892],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-facing-another-change","tag-filled-out","tag-fruit-of-the-spirit","tag-god-never-changes","tag-i-am-the-lord","tag-i-change-not","tag-malachi-36","tag-season-of-change","tag-times-of-transition","tag-wate-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}