Eccl
3:1-2 says: To everything there is a season, A time for
every purpose under heaven: A time to give birth, and a time
to die; A time to plant, and a time to uproot what is
planted.
There are
seasons---a point of time--- for everything in
life...seasons for the things we call good and seasons for
the things we call bad.
Many times,
when bad things happen, we don't understand why, and
we wonder "have I done something wrong?".
I used to drive myself crazy with this one—analyzing
everything I’ve said or done to anyone in the past week,
month, year.
Or…wondering what didn’t I do that I
should have done? But, when we do something wrong or
don’t do what we should do, we really won’t have to be a
detective to find out---the Holy Spirit will convict us so
that we can repent. Many times, the reason WHY something has
happened has nothing to do with what we did or didn’t do.
IT’S JUST THE SEASON!
And,when
something good happens, we think--"Did I do something
really great?What is it, so I can do it again?”
But the answer to 'why it happened?' may simply be
it's just the season.
We can’t
escape the seasons in our lives any more than we can escape
the seasons in nature. There will be summer, fall, winter,
spring. And just as surely, there will be times to laugh,
times to cry, times to succeed and times to fail We need the
times we fail just as much as we need the times we succeed.
We LEARN from our failures---sometimes more than from our
successes.
We will always have seasons when we need
miracles of God’s love.
There will be times that we attempt to do
the will of God, yet, everything seems to go
Wrong.
We can’t Pray away God’s season;
The Lord has purpose in not allowing us
to be fruitful all the time.
If you look at the fruit tree they do not
bear fruit year round, there is a season when everything
is ripe and ready for the harvest.
A tree that is never pruned (tested)
always produces small fruit and it is usually bitter.
But if you prune back the tree, it does bleed, and when
it heals and spring comes then you begin to see large
fruit, sweet and good for use.
There is a purpose in test and challenges. They are to
bring about a maturing of the children of God. Don’t be
discouraged by them--- choose to see the good they do you
and greatness that God has for you.
Delays are not DEFEATS in the Kingdom of God and HIS plan.
Neither are they denials. God's timing is not ours and even when God says "soon" it
may not be our definition of soon.
DO NOT MAKE
PERMANENT DECISIONS BASED ON A TEMPORARY SEASON OR
CIRCUMSTANCE YOU ARE GOING THROUGH.
AND BE
READY TO DO THE HARDEST THING: WAIT! SOME THINGS THAT ARE
TEMPORARY DO NOT ALWAYS REQUIRE ACTION, BUT PATIENCE.
Galatians
6:9And
let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting
nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed
season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our
courage and faint.
Now here's a
song to help you through those seasons, no matter what comes
against you. It's called "I Shall Not Be Moved"
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