We often look forward to transitions with excitement.
See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.
- Deuteronomy 1:8
Transitions may fail to deliver their full potential.
“And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore, ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 1:34, 39
God wants us to prepare for new seasons and opportunities properly.
Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children.
- Deuteronomy 4:9
We prepare for transition through transformation.
Reflect on what God has done.
Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown, that you might know that the Lord is God; there is no other besides him.
- Deuteronomy 4:33-35
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)
Listen and respond with obedience.
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
- Deuteronomy 6:4
Love God with our whole being.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
- Deuteronomy 6:5
A transformed heart chooses life.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days...”
- Deuteronomy 30:19-20