Here in Japan, spring is a new season for people in more than one way. April is not only a turning of the weather, but a time when students start a new school year and people start new jobs or change jobs.
For me personally, I’m facing change as well.
After having worked at the same high school for seven years, I will start working at three junior high schools come this April. A big change to be sure.
And so as I read Philippians 1, Paul’s prayer touched my heart.
It’s a prayer I pray for myself as I head into this new season,
And for those of you who are heading into a new season of life, I pray for you as well, especially those of you facing big decisions.
And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment, so that you may approve the things that are superior and may be pure and blameless in the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. (Philipians 1:9-11)
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