August 2, 2013
There is a Season
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:3-5
“The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You’re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you’re two months back in the middle of March.”
- Robert Frost
Seasons come and go: the weather changes: the sun comes up: the stars shine at night and everything around us is in a perpetual state of change.
This seems to be how it is with our lives. Regardless of where we are today: the passing of time will invariably bring with it changes. We are all growing perpetually older: children grow and have children who grow: challenges come and go: sickness arrives and leaves: and nothing stays the same: except God.
But even in the eternal order of His consistency God has ordered the cycles of change that affect our lives. His Word tells us so.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
Our job is to be at peace, to remain content and to enjoy whatever season we are in and trust God to take us through whatever season He may lead us to.
Prayer:
Father, help me to trust you with my whole heart and not to try to rely on what I think I understand: but to know that you are in full control of all the seasons of my life.
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