Have you ever looked at what happens when seasons change? The weather can be a little confusing when it changes from Winter to Spring. You will have some cold days and some warms days. Think about the change from Spring to Summer. You experience the same thing. It can still be Spring and yet you have days so warm that it feels like Summer. Not only that you have beautiful trees that begin to blossom and bear fruit and you can see the fruitfulness of the land and then we begin our transition into Fall. As we transition into Fall, the scenery and the atmosphere begin to change. It’s noticeable but you can still see the beauty all around you but it just looks different. Then there is the change from Fall to Winter where the leaves fall from the trees and the green grass turns brown. The trees look barren because they have no leaves or fruit and the grass looks dead but in essence it still carries within it life.
Understand, our lives sometimes look like that transition from Fall to Winter. We can sometimes look and feel like we are lifeless, barren and dying but remember the GREATER ONE lives on the inside of us and we still have life. There is a power that is working within us even when the outward appearance of our lives may look bad. We have to know that what it looks and feels like in barren seasons is not the end of our story. We have to know that seasons change.
As you are going through seasons in your life make sure you are preparing the ground of your heart by receiving the seed of God’s Word so that you can be fruitful and multiply as the seasons change. Don’t count yourself as down and out because things don’t look like what you want them to. Outward appearance doesn’t tell the whole story. Just as green grass breaks through the soil in Spring, so shall the blessings of God breakthrough in your life as you transition from one season to another in faith.
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
Ecclesiastes Chapter 3
1 To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up [that which is] planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 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.
12 I know that [there is] no good in them, but for [a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it [is] the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.
15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, [that] wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was] there.
17 I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.
18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all [is] vanity.
20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
22 Wherefore I perceive that [there is] nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that [is] his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
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