Life is full of transitions. As children, we transition from infant to toddler, crawling to walking, and crying to talking. As the years continue, we experience other transitions in education, career, and relationships.
Eventually, we all encounter difficult transitions. Many have to make decisions about how to care for aging parents. Others have to navigate the waters of broken marriages. Still others experience the loss of loved ones.
At some point or another, we all come to a point in which the transition occurring in our life seems too difficult to bear.
However, there is hope because of Christ. He has lived through the most difficult transitions of all: First, by laying aside His glory in heaven and be born as a human (Philippians 2:6-7). Second, by enduring all of the effects of sin on our behalf although he himself is sinless (2 Cor. 5:21). And finally, by taking the penalty for our sin on the cross and rising from the dead three days later (I Cor. 15:3-5). Now those are some powerful transitions.
Because Christ has conquered sin and the grave; and because Christ can empathize with our every struggle (Hebrews 4:15); we can trust that in the midst of our most difficult transitions, Christ provides hope.