This is where the Michigan Wolverines play College Football, also affectionately known as: “The Big House”. My father is from Detroit, Michigan and he is a Wolverines fan and so it got on to me, and now anything Michigan Wolverines I love and root for all because I got it from my Father. You can watch many games, and you’ll see that over 100,000 people pack this stadium to watch football games! However this year it won’t be any fans, it won’t be all the cheers and roars, and if the Wolverines do play it will just be them and the opposing team that will battle on the field.
I can imagine the adjustment that would be, not celebrating with the fans, not hearing the cheers, not hearing the band, and not even hearing the fight songs anymore. Even though they won’t have any fans, the players will still have to play and coaches will still have to coach even with the new normal. There is something that happens to us in life like that, we all have at times have had to adjust to a new normal and we have had to go in a different route, we have had to go in a different direction, and we have had to go in a different occurrence there will be moments in our lives that God will strip the normal, God will take away the normal, and God will remove the comfortable for something else.
Even when that happens do you trust God with the new, do you trust God with the new adjustment, do you believe in God when it is a new adjustment, and do you follow the Lord when there are those periods that things will become new to us. There can be and will be periods in our lives, that you and I will have to start doing something’s differently and have to have our own adjustments. There are plenty of times that we have had the same regiment, the same rituals, the same occurrences, the same things that we are used to….. but here comes the Lord letting us know – “IT’S A NEW DAY & ERA“.
Can you handle it when God says that!?!? Let’s be real and honest about it, that indeed can scare and frighten us knowing that my normal has now been shifted and taken away, and now I have a whole new completely different normal that is coming my way. That can cause anyone to have moments of hesitation, anxiety, and to be scared because we all are used to things the way they are, we all are used to having things done a certain way, we all are used to things being in a familiar area and pattern but now here comes God!! God has come to let you and I know – “What you have enjoyed is over, something else is here that you’ll enjoy differently”.
I believe that will happen and has happened during this season of pandemic, there have been many people on record who have said and states that they enjoy everything better, differently, and that they don’t take things for granted anymore like they had. I believe that to be true, I believe that to be a wake up call, and I believe that to be a ministry for us all that we have to enjoy what we do have, but also get ready to enjoy the things God is about to give us. We can’t afford to just stay at one spot forever, the Lord is always doing new things and using new methods to grow us and there is no reason to continue to be lackadaisical when the Lord is calling you and calling me into a new season of life.
The new season might not be what you thought it would, yet that new season especially when God is involved is exactly what you need. The Lord always knows what you and I need, the Lord knows what we stand in need of, the Lord knows what is best for us, the Lord knows what we should do and what we shouldn’t do, and all of the time the Lord knows what we need to have and what we need to take in this new era. In the new era you have to be new also, there are plenty things that are old that can’t accompany to this new section because you can’t put new wine in old wineskins. That makes so much sense as I’ve gotten older, if you really want to experience transformation stop trying to hang on to what has dried up and what has been fried because it is not going to work anymore.
It’s okay to go in a new direction, and don’t be afraid to go into a new direction the Lord has blessings for you, the Lord has greatness coming, and the Lord has open doors for you but are you going to go in the new direction. Is it intimidating, nerve-wracking, and can make you apprehensive I mean of course those are regular human emotions!!! But is your trust in God, when you have that firm and strong trust in the Lord you can go higher, you can go where He wants, you can go where He tells you to go, and you can go higher because there has been a complete trust in God that has taken you higher, that has taken you to another level, and that has taken you into a new direction and it’s about having a complete reliance and trust in the Lord!
It reminds of the great legendary center Ben Wallace, he started his career with the Washington Wizards and was really an unknown player. Then he went to the Detroit Pistons, and when he went to the Detroit Pistons it was there that he really became the legendary player and remembered player he is now. It took an adjustment to that new normal but it worked, there could have been a whole lot that was missed out on had Ben Wallace remained in Washington, but it didn’t happen because he went to Detroit and he became a respected, a celebrated, and a hall of game basketball player because of a new normal.
We all can and should be ready for that, there should always be that feeling that: “Why should I worry when God is with me”. The Lord is there, the Lord is with me, and the Lord is going to take care of me so that should take care of it. Remember God is coming, God didn’t bring it to you if He didn’t think you could do it, and God wouldn’t have blessed you with you with it if He doubted you but because the Lord believes in you than you need m and should believe in you! You always have to have strong faith, strong belief, and strong faith the Lord knows you and the Lord knows what is best for you always and it always will work itself out the way that it should!
Go forward and keep progressing!! The Lord knows what it is best for us, the Lord knows what is good for us, and the Lord knows what we can stand so there ought to be some aggressiveness within our lives that pushes us to be great, pushes us to be different, and pushes us to be a whole new us! Don’t put it off but go for it! God will bless!
Genesis 12:1-3 NASB
[1] Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; [2] And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; [3] And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
Words From GCB 