It’s time to let go of dead things

Many years ago I had a dream of a lake that I was wading in to. In this lake were heaps of dead bodies. I kept trying to save them by pulling them out of the water. However, when I pulled them to shore, much to my disappointment they didn't come back to life. In the end I was toiling hard simply to pile dead bodies at the waters edge.

I then heard the Lord's voice firmly say: "stop trying to enter that which is dead!"

I realized God was telling me it was time for a new season. I needed to move on. 

I was doing what I had always done, because I knew I was called to it, but the season had changed and I had not discerned that it was time for the new.

So friend, as someone who has been there, I want to say to you- it's ok for something to end.

Some of you are in a season that feels like it's dying and you're afraid to let go.

You feel if you do, it means you have failed. But you have not failed, it's just time to move with God to the next phase.

Some things have to die so that new life can come.  And this season may have been a long, productive one, but over the last few years it's felt a bit stale. No one else may see it, but you feel it. 

It doesn't bring you joy like it used to.

The things you did that made you come alive now just makes you tired. 

That's because it's time for a new season.

So let that thing go...

It is time to move on.

Stop trying to pick up the dead thing just because it was alive once. 

Go where the breath of God is, even if it feels like unfamiliar territory. 

The end is not the end.

It's a new beginning!  

Philippians 3:13-14 "forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.".