Autumn is a season in the year when more than leaves and weather change. It’s the time of year when I’m the most reminiscent because I see transformation and transition happen. When September rolled around, I saw my friends after a summer in which we’d all done our own separate things. Even from those catch-up interactions, I could tell that we’d all grown and experienced life in our own individual ways that made for a distinct change in each of us, regardless of how major or minor it was. September was also a time of novelty, as I welcomed a new year with mixed feelings towards school, serving and everything in between.
In my reflection of my walk with God, words stick out to me are “faithful” and “steadfast”. In retrospect, I see that in every season, God has been and is faithful, He remains steadfast in pursuing me, and He has been with me in every trial. When everything around me is going through changes, including myself, I am comforted knowing that He is constant. When everything is in a state of change and chaos, He remains the same. I look at what is happening around me, and in spite of it all, I know God is still good and that He’s in control. It is His grace that brings me through each day. In Christ alone, I can find rest in every high, low and plateau. In myself, when God chisels away at my sin, I know that He is refining me and so I’ll delight in His name even when it hurts.
How fickleam I to choose trash over treasure time and time again? Still, and though I’ll never fully grasp the concept of grace, I am extravagantly loved. Though I am more sinful than I can ever comprehend; I am simultaneously also more irrevocably loved and forgiven than I can ever imagine. When I look to the grander scheme of things, I see that God is greater than it all. In my own heart, I know that God is constantly at work in all the little pieces, the fragments and fissures, and filling that void only He can fill. No longer in need of searching for affirmation in the wrong places, I can find comfort in Him who comforts when there is no comfort. He reached down to bring restoration. How we need it.
RCCF, like any fellowship or body of Christ, is not perfect. Leadership is not perfect. People aren’t perfect. We’re a body of people believing in a God that saves us from the sin that embeds our hearts. And we are still works in progress, constantly falling short and sinning and hurting one another. Our hope in all of this is to continue to to trust in the God is at home in us, the spirit working in our heart and bringing forth reconciliation in our relationships.
I know we have a tendency to put leadership on a pedestal but we mustn’t. Only Christ is perfect and worthy of exaltation. He must be our heart hope always – and we must trust in Him alone.
He is my heart hope for this new school year, and I pray He is yours as we move forward.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Spirit. – Romans 15:13
In Christ,
Ariette
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