Transition! - Different Constraints (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and thank you for joining us today. Today is January 1st, 2026! Wishing you a wonderful, blessed new year. May the Lord prosper you; may the Lord bless you; may the Lord enrich you in every way as you journey through this new year. Greetings to you from all of us here at All People's Church, the staff, the church family and we look forward to journeying with you through 2026. Over this week, we've been talking about transitions and indeed we've transitioned into a new year and we are looking at various facets of transitions about what this would mean to us and what this would bring upon us as we go through changes and transitions in life. Today, I want to just think about different constraints, that is, when we go through transitions the constraints or the factors under which we have to operate or conduct ourselves change and we have to accommodate new constraints and new factors. Think about a simple transition in life, if a person who is single transitions into being married, there's a change in constraints. There's a change in the way they would now do life. As a single person, they do a lot of things that a single person would do- move around with friends and so on so forth. But now as a married person, the dynamics are different, the constraints have been changed, now the responsibility is primarily to their spouse and to this new life together and so there is a change in the way they would relate to their own friends and people and so on. There's a change in constraints and that has that has been caused by this transition. Similarly, spiritual growth brings about a change in constraints. When we are operating at a certain level of spiritual maturity, like Paul says, ‘when I was a child, I thought as a child I behaved like a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things.’ So, here's a transition and of course he's talking about spiritual transition. I was a child; I conducted myself spiritually like a child. But now I've become spiritually an adult and so now things have changed, I have to behave like an adult. So, there is the change in constraints, change in the way we conduct ourselves. And if we don't make this change, if we don't accommodate this transition, things will be greatly out of place. It's almost like an adult trying to behave like a child, that would not sit well and it would just be totally out of place. So, when there are change of constraints, we need to adapt and accommodate the change, the way we live, the way we conduct ourselves changes because there's a change in constraints. Like a single person now being a married man, a child becoming an adult, we learn to adapt. Let's pray, Father, we just pray and ask for the wisdom we need, the grace we need to learn to operate under new constraints, under new boundaries, in a new context that we'll have the wisdom to learn how to operate as transitions happen in our lives, in Jesus' name, Amen.

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