When the seasons change Excerpts and Quotes from Overcoming with Letitia Wright
FALL HAS THE POWER TO MAKE YOU FEEL ALIVE AND TAKE YOU TO YOUR PAST BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. A FALLEN LEAF IS NOTHING MORE THAN A SUMMER’S WAVE GOODBYE. “So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today — to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul — then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil. If we love God and serve Him how He asks, His love and mercies will be with us in every season, renewing us.” Deuteronomy 11:14 In life, we’re faced with so many trials and difficult times. Oftentimes we really want to get a quick way out—we really want to do it our way. I found that this Scripture really brings me back to the center of trusting God with all of my heart — back to the basics. Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 NLT When I did lean in and trust Him, He worked everything out. I want to encourage you today in whatever you may be going through or trying to overcome. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. When you trust in Him, everything will just come together. During this time, God has been telling me that His thoughts toward me are of good, of peace, of love, and not of evil—but to give me a future and a hope. This enables me to be confident in myself, and to focus my mind on my future knowing the way that God is thinking about me. His thoughts are really precious and loving. It gives me confidence to overcome the situations that I as going through, and to have hope that my future is going to look bright. Sharing our faith is surprisingly simple, but sometimes we can get deterred by anxiety or uncertainty. In our conversations, we can get caught up in the weeds, when we allow others to overcomplicate and distract us from the simple beauty of God’s saving grace. 8 FALL 2021 BACK2BASICSMAG.COM
