11.25.25 ~ Seasonal Changes

Good morning!

The Genesis Torah portions, each week, reveal to us real life drama through the lives of the Patriarchs and establish 'seed' patterns into the lives of their descendants (physically and spiritually). Fortunately, as we see in their lives, seasons do change and 'this' too will pass. Exiles end and freedom begins.

Just as Jacob left his imprisoned life under Laban, many who were once content to be slaves awaken to their true identity, break free, and embark on the long journey ‘home’ and their life goes on. Pages turn. Familiar chapters conclude and fresh ones begin. Seasons of life really do come and go. Childhood turns to adolescents. Adolescents to adulthood. Adulthood to midlife then off to the golden years. Fall harvest leads to winter.  And across the landscape of this planet, winters will become beautiful spring times, followed by heat-filled summers, which will fade into beautiful fall colors. Sunshine yields to sunset, and nighttime yields to day break.

Slavery gives way to freedom. Challenges arise. Emotions flare. Identity issues resurface. Battles unfold. In the course of the redemption there's always drama. As it was for Jacob, Rachel, Leah and their little band of returning exiles, so it is for us, their progeny.

This week's Torah portion, Vayietze/and he went,  leads us into a season of shaking off mental and emotional chains and forging new beginnings. It's a week when the slumbering lion within us is awakened and empowered. Just as it's a season of change in the physical, it's our season to get in position, get the proper mindset, deal with the approaching changes and prepare to start over. Old things in our lives that have become stale and unfruitful - if not toxic - are about to pass away. Old habits, old relationships, and old attachments will become stale and unfulfilling. Old perspectives and old limitations will begin to get ...well, OLD! Old comfort zones, old grudges, old walls of separation, old defense mechanisms, and old ways of dealing with challenges and people. Everything that is familiar and comfortable and stagnant in our lives will be challenged to the core this week.  This is to be a week of disentangling, shaking loose, breaking free and moving on! It is a week for discontinuing counter-productive patterns of thought, reaction, and behavior.

Our hearts – if not our bodies - will take some hits.  We will sometimes wonder if we’ve gotten out of the frying pan only to fall into the fire. We will have to put amazing levels of trust in our Covenant Partner in Heaven, and do exactly what He says -or the dark night of the soul that awaits us will be our undoing.

Are you up for the challenge?  Are you ready to embrace this appointed season of new beginnings in Messiah? Are you hungry to start closing the gap between who, what, and where you are and who, what, and where you were born to become?  Are you ready for the Lord to awaken you to a fresh new season of growth, learning, and a more intimate and satisfying relationship with the Bridegroom King?  Are you ready to AWAKEN THE LION in your soul, and let Him run and roar? If so, this Torah portion is for you!

Then again, for those who are  not ready to move on to their destiny, the Laban's of the world are more than happy for you to be their slave.

Knowing you, as I do, I think you'll choose the former.

Shalom!
Alan

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