Seasons

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To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. – Ecclesiastes 3:1

Our God breaths upon time and space and enters into our sphere, moving with rhythmic precision and thoughtful order, shaping events, turning tides, and weaving the seasons into a tapestry of purpose. We respond either by riding the waves of His wonderful will or resisting the seasons in habitual stubbornness and rigid rebellion.

The antithesis to a celebration of God’s gracious seasons would be a life of compulsive habit – where every day is the same and every reaction on our part is predictable. We so often live in contradiction to the way God’s Spirit moves. When we do, we swim against the tide and deplete our energy and other resources in frivolous pursuit of what we think is an orderly and well-planned life. In reality, we are resisting God and His ways.

There are places in the scheme of things where seasons seem to meld into a seamless web of sameness, but they are part of a greater design and even in such places there are divinely ordained fluctuations in what might be considered “norm.”

There are lives that seem dull and redundant, but when God is having His way in the hearts of His people, there is adventure and newness every day.

We need to embrace the seasons of our lives with relish and wonder. They are indications of God’s creative love and graceful presence. All that men define as chaos in the universe may be that way from their limited perspectives – but it takes an eternal perspective to see that there is glorious pattern beyond our comprehension that we shall some day see unfolded before enlightened eyes in glory.

Whatever season you are in, physically, chronologically, developmentally, relationally, occupationally, emotionally, or spiritually, God knows and He is present. He is moving in the midst of your circumstances. Discover the current of His grace and ride through the storms. For everything, there is a season.