Just like the four seasons of the year, spring, summer, fall, and winter, our life has its seasons. The year, 2020, was a vey trying year for most of us. If you felt like me, you could not wait for that year to be over.
Fall will officially start on September 22, and pretty soon we will begin to see the leaves turning colors. Just like our earth has its seasons, so do we. God cares about us, and is with us, in every season of our lives. Ecclesiastes tells us about the many seasons we will face in life: times of birth, death, weeping, and joy. We know or should understand, that we will experience good and bad times in our lives, and that is normal. The Bible tells us that everything has a season and there is a time and a purpose for everything under heaven.
It appears now that I am in my winter season, not literally. Winter is the most challenging season of them all. Some of us are in a testing stage and it seems as though darkness is all around us. Don’t worry from winter comes spring, from spring comes summer, from summer comes fall, and then back to winter again.
Life is a cycle and a journey. Life is not all glorious and rosy all of the time, but sometimes it is full of fear, frustration, and riddled with chaos. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 says, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.”
Life is constantly changing. Some seasons drag on forever, like the pandemic, and some seasons go by quickly. No one but God knows how long each season will last. In each season of our life, God is doing something for us. He is improving us and preparing us, for something bigger and better. At times, it may seem that God is being silent, that He doesn’t hear us, but he hears every word from our lips, our thoughts, and see the pain in our hearts. God is always listening to us and He is always refining us.
In every season of our lives, Jesus is always there. We should spend this time getting closer to Him. In the dark times we should lean on Him, because He is our Rock. It’s during these times that our trust and love for Him deepens.
As the earthly seasons change, so do our lives. During the summer season, our life may look a little dry. The fall season, we may enter into a new beginning. During our winter season, we may be cold and full of darkness. The wonderful spring season, the one that we all look so forward to, we can bloom, like those beautiful tulips we planted in the fall.
Every season has its purpose, although some of us are in our winter season, we may not understand it now, but God is setting us up for success even when it doesn’t feel that way, or look like it.
If God would only lift the veil for us to see beyond today, what would we see? We would see beyond our present griefs, sorrows, tears and dreariness. We would see that He did right the wrongs in our lives. We would see, that our darkness turned into light, and the many joys that awaits us. But, God isn’t going to remove the veil from our eyes for us to see, but we must know that God is love and He can’t lie. He just wants us to cling to Him a little bit harder, allow Him to lead us, and simply trust Him.
What season are you in?
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