Change can be tiresome. It can also be exciting. Change can stunt growth, and it can produce growth. Change can be abrupt, and it can be painfully delayed. Change can be helpful, and it can be hurtful.

It all depends on the perspective.

When we assume the perspective of change is ours, we’re going to respond with frustration, anger, anxiety, exhilaration, celebration, and just about every emotion in between. We’re going to measure the change against what we want. We’re going to consider our comfort. And we’ll respond to the change and set our expectations of the change accordingly. For this reason, the same change can result in very different responses from a variety of people.

It seems natural to assume our own perspective with respect to the change. After all, we know what impacts us most. We know how we’re affected. Even when we’re concerned with others, we’re assuming a perspective with which we can empathize. But it’s not our perspective or even others’ perspectives about which we need to be most concerned.

God is the only one who completely sees the change: why it’s needed, how it should occur, and what the impact will be.

When we yield to God’s perspective, change will never get old, because it will always be with purpose. We won’t always understand the change, but when we trust God through the change, we settle into it as a process instead of an event. We don’t isolate change of a situation. We expand our perspective of the change to consider how it fits within a bigger picture.

Even when we feel differently, we can be certain of God’s sovereignty through change. He will sometimes change something more quickly or slowly than we prefer. He will change something we liked or not change something we don’t like. But God’s way of change isn’t centered on our response. He cares too much about us and his kingdom. He cares about the specifics but always within the context of the big picture. We can trust him in all things, including change.

When we fully trust God, we will not tire of his way of change. We won’t be intimidated by it or anxious about it. We won’t complain. We will praise.

Lord, I trust you.I have said, “You are my God.”My life is in your hands. (Psalm 31:14-15)