There’s been many shifts in the ways that we’ve experienced the Legend of Zelda series over the years… the classic top-down perspective of the original NES title, the side-scrolling style of its successors, the 3D adventures we have enjoyed starting with the release of Ocarina of Time, and the open-world titles we are exploring now. And while each of these changes flipped us around and disrupted our comfortable status quo, each shift in gameplay style and perspective was critical for the continued growth of the franchise as well as to ensure that the series maintained its relevance in each console generation. Sure, there are certain titles in the Zelda timeline that may not be our favorites, but they still blazed the trail that led us to the games we’re playing now.

We all experience seasons in life when it feels like everything is going “sideways” on us… but these unwanted changes in the way that the game is being played are used by the Lord to change our perspective and alter our point of view, moving us beyond our familiar routines and into a place where new skills are learned. It isn’t easy, and it certainly isn’t comfortable… but He knows what challenges lie ahead of us and He lovingly prepares us for them before our future path requires it. Let’s embrace the changes He is introducing in our lives… He has His reasons.

Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9

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