Seasons of A Woman’s Life Change. God doesn’t.

What rock-solid truth do you need to successfully navigate each season of life?

Many of you know that I’ve recently become a grandmother, entering a new and wonderful season of life.

We’re also getting ready to celebrate Matthew’s marriage to Lydia this fall,

and preparing for Holly’s return to college after working the summer at the Wilds,

and the start of another homeschool year for Hope and little Brayden.

Peter and I just celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary.

We are in such a mixture of stages and seasons, and if I’m honest, it can be a little dizzying trying to keep up with all of it.

You’ve been writing of your own seasons, navigating sleepless nights, toddler-tantrum days, busy homes where quiet is just a word in the dictionary, seeking devotional time when time is never your own, dealing with wayward children or intense seasons of frustrating ministry.

• How do you walk worthy and nurture your relationship with God in each season?
• How do you keep from discouragement when all around us we see compromise and carelessness with God’s Word?
• How do you keep yourself from sin and stay on a godly path? How do you do right when everyone is doing what’s right in their own eyes?
• We walk through each season with eyes on Christ, minds meditating on the Word, and in full surrender and submission to His purposes.

As you read Titus 2, you’ll notice a continuity of thought through all the stages, sexes, and stations of believer’s life, a string of ideas that have a correlation: behavior that is becoming based on doctrine that is sound. Doing the right things because we believe the right things about God and our duty before Him.

In every varied season of life, we have an unchanging God, His unchanging Word, and a timeless code of conduct: we are to be temperate and restrained (not overdoing in anything), discreet, teachers of good things, zealous of good works, purified for a purpose, sensible and sound in mind, loving to family, managing our home and resources well, denying ungodliness, and living righteously, looking forward to another season, “the glorious appearing of the great God-and-our-Savior-Jesus Christ.”

We live each season with eternity in view.

Here are a few anchors or disciplines for each day no matter what the season:

• seeking God first and foremost.
• Bible reading– not just for knowledge, but for change.
• prayer submission to the will of God in everything.
• having the mind of Christ and not being conformed to this world–this means immersion in the Word of God daily and meditating on it throughout the day.
• refusing the worthless and choosing the beneficial–making life choices with eternity in view.
• contentment in every state because you trust God’s sovereignty.
• perseverance to run the race marked out for you.
• living out our purpose of good deeds which God planned for us to do. (We’re discussing one type of good deed, hospitality, in Instagram stories. You can find them saved in my highlights on IG)

You, my faithful readers, have been with me through so many seasons of life already! The early childhood to teenager years, my floundering as a homeschool mom, our first, second, third, fourth high school homeschool graduates and college-bound kids, to marriages and now grand-parenting. Things have changed, my life has changed, and I’ve changed!

But the foundational things haven’t changed. God hasn’t changed! His will is the same.

And it’s the same for you.

I’ve known some of you for ten or more years. You’ve read here and befriended me. I’ve prayed for you and cried for you. I’ve encouraged you and tried to be a good “far-away” friend to you, but through it all, through good times and bad, we’ve always had a faithful God who was faithful when we failed, who disciplined like a good Father when we strayed, who befriended us when we were lonely.

So many things change in this chaotic, broken, aimless, fickle world.

BUT OUR GOD, He’s worthy of all the praise we can muster. He’s worthy of your pursuit and devotion. He’s faithful in a world where people break faith without batting an eyelash.  He’s the truth and the stability you need in every change. Seek Him in each new season.