I once heard a song sung by a South African singer. It was a song in which she described her life as a life of sitting in transit in airport lounges. She felt like she was in transit wherever she went. It made quite an impression on me.

I was living a really settled life at the time. I was cozy in my home life, my church life, my career and the comfort zones I built for myself. It was not long after that, that I came out to my precious wife at the time, and found that I gave up life in the comfort zone. I now embarked on a life in transition. This life would bring me to London. I remember walking on the promenade in Cape Town's Sea Point and the voice of the Holy Spirit told me to prepare to spread my wings and fly. I somehow sensed I would be on a flight somewhere to the UK. How it was going to happen I was not sure.

A few months later I was indeed on a flight to London to join my partner at the time, Warren. I have been in transition a few times in the last 2 years. Between jobs, between homes, and again between jobs, and then came the call into the prophetic. I was again in training and going into transition. Well, it just never ends!

I had forgotten what life as a settler was like. The comfort zones, the safety nets, the easy life seemed like something so far away. And then I read an extract from the book of Jim Goll last week, called " The Seer". Jim says that the Christian life is really a life of a pioneer, never a settler. God never changes, and we as Christians always change. We HAVE to change. We are changed from glory to glory and (hopefully) getting better and better. Becoming more like Jesus is our aim, and that means flesh and selfish ambition have to die.

This is always a painful process. It is also a process which happens on an individual as well as a global level. God is in the process of changing the church. Therefore we are also in transition as the church. We are not called to be a settling church. So in the global level, the church is also changed from glory to glory and the processes we have to go through on both levels are painful but necessary.

Dear saints! I have good news and bad news for us all. The good news: God is changing us as individuals, but also as a worldwide Body of Christ. The changes we are going to go through will be extremely painful but are necessary as God knows what He is doing. He is after all, the Author and the Finisher of our Faith. This is also the bad news. So buckle up! Brace, and let flesh die so that Christ in us may continue to shine and grow and be the Hope of Glory that all creation is waiting for!

Bless you in your place of transition!