Close the Book

Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not to your understanding and in your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths (Prov 3:5-6)

Sometimes when you are entering the final chapter of a thing there can be great opposition and confusion.  For the many of us who have been married, then single again it can be challenging, frustrating, and scarey.  But even in all of that God is preparing you for what comes next.  Even those who have not been married but in relationships we believed would result in marriage, it is an emotional time filled with uncertainty about what you should do next.  You wonder how you came to this place in your life when you thought you had it all figured out. You saw it going a different way.  You saw it ending differently but at the end of the day it didn't quite pan out the way you had hoped.

Know this that God has not given you the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind (2 Tim 1:7). You can go through this transition and you will overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony (Rev 12:11). You cannot walk in fear at this time.  Far too much time and energy has been spent in turning the page to the closure which says "the end".  You've been reluctant to close the book because of fear of the unknown.  Writing the book was difficult and daunting and sometimes down right chaotic but yet closing it makes you feel like you are a failure.  You cried many tears, prayed many times, and know it is the will of the Lord. You suffered many critical moments throughout, but at the end you realized that God is always correct regardless to how you believed. 

It is not the time to rest in your own understanding.  It is the time to draw near unto to the Lord and pray without ceasing so that you can be clear on what God is saying for this next season because this book is done and there is nothing left to write.  Acknowledge that God has the answer and he is the answer for what is going on in your life.  He knows what is to be written in the next book, so allow his penmanship to do the writing and you just rest in him while he gives direction.

Close the book to the past and move on.  Don't allow the enemy to throw stumbling blocks in your path. Don't allow him to try to set you up for a fall.  Just as I was preparing to the close the book at a particular time, the enemy came in to speak things in my ear, but God exposed his deceptive devices to me so that I did not fall for lies.  That is what the enemy will do speak things that you know are not from the Father.  He will speak against what God has said to you, he will speak against your purpose, he will try to undermine your purpose.  This is when you can be assured that the book needs to close and stay closed.