However, some changes we do not look forward to. We would more readily run from them rather than to them. To reject them would make infinitely more sense to us than to hold our arms open to them. Still, while we may never offer to hold them close we often are not given the opportunity to resist them either. Instead of being freed from a burden or sickness perhaps it seems more likely that one has fallen upon us. Instead of the embrace of a loved one there may be the bitterest of distance. Or, instead of the fulfillment of our desires perhaps we might hear the sound of a suddenly closed door.
It's likely that both kinds of change resonate within us. We have experienced them both, and have had enough taste of the latter that we quickly recognize 
we do not want to endure such kinds of transitions. Yet, the reality is that we likely will. The question for those of us navigating this harsh terrain both now and in those undesired seasons to come is how. How will we traverse the road that seems forced upon us? Or, better yet, with whom will we travel?
Sometimes it can seem that no one could understand the pain of our experiences or the difficulty we face. We may suffer from confusion or even resentment as we struggle to understand why our struggle has come and why it persists. This seems to be especially true when the change is one that feels as though it will alter your whole life. I have felt this, and at times even in the season I currently live. When I do I question what the Lord has in store, why His goodness may seem so long in coming, or why I am even made to endure the challenge at all. It's not been my intent to be irreverent toward Him, simply an honest wondering and an attempt to understand what He is working for me.
As I read my Bible this morning I was confronted with two very difficult changes felt by two individuals with two very different responses. I saw how Moses struggled to understand how God could call him to lead his people out of captivity and yet his efforts to do so only resulted in making conditions for them worse. I also saw Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane as he suffered with the reality that He soon would give His life for all mankind and He knew it would be brutal to His body as well as His soul. Moses painfully questioned how God could allow his people to suffer more after he had done what the Lord directed him to do. Jesus, desired not to endure his pain and suffering but willingly offered to do just what God the Father had ordained. In both circumstances God was eventually and supremely glorified. Most of us can more closely relate to the response of Moses. However, only in Jesus do we have someone who has known our every challenge, and through His cross not only relates to the very pain we feel day to day or year to year, but also wants to lead us through it.
While there may be those that we can look to for support and encouragement in our challenging times, especially through change Jesus is truly the only one with the ability to lead us through. May we then look to Him, and if we must wait upon Him to move the mountain before us let us wait upon Him indeed for it is that very mountain He longs to move for you and I.
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."
Luke 22:42
