Word ~ Prayer ~ Missions... 2012!
Seasons - Turn, turn, turn
"to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven" (Eccl.3:1)
Being born & raised in Ventura California I knew (1) One season. 70 degrees & sunny, with occasional showers. When I'd visit other places, with snow or bright colored fall leaves, I'd fly in, see it, and be gone within days.
Until I was in my mid-thirties! Now after living in Franklin, Tennessee for seven years I've come to appreciate and love the changing of the seasons.
This is how James Ryle describes the four seasons, and his comments on waiting;
"Waiting is the winter season; long, dark and cold. Flying is the spring season, bursting with life and color. Running is the summer season, burning fuel and moving fast. Walking is the fall season, slowing down and easing into yet another winter."
God is faithful in whatever season you are in. This season will pass. How can you enjoy this season? What can you be thankful for today?
We long for the past, when we were 'flying high', when we felt like we were soaring above it all. "But this is not the way God works. His thoughts are not our thoughts, and our ways are not His ways. God's way is -- wait, fly, run, and walk. Which, of course, brings us right back to wait again. And so the cycle repeats -- over and over throughout the course of our lives."
“Those who bind together with the Lord, who intertwine with Him like strands in a rope, will experience the great exchange. They will find their weakness exchanged for His power; their unsteadiness exchanged for His firm resolve; their fatigue exchanged for his vigor and valor; and so on, and so on, and so on.
“They will discover that their inabilities have been exchanged for an increased capacity to produce whatever is needed in any given situation, with results that are always significant and fulfilling. They shall ascend to a higher place, and be active in effective ways.
“They shall move with speed and determination, without gasping in exhaustion, or tiring of the toil. They shall move with steady resolve along a path of purpose, not being depleted of energy, nor void of hope.”
What season are you in, how can you embrace it?
Being born & raised in Ventura California I knew (1) One season. 70 degrees & sunny, with occasional showers. When I'd visit other places, with snow or bright colored fall leaves, I'd fly in, see it, and be gone within days.
Until I was in my mid-thirties! Now after living in Franklin, Tennessee for seven years I've come to appreciate and love the changing of the seasons.
This is how James Ryle describes the four seasons, and his comments on waiting;
"Waiting is the winter season; long, dark and cold. Flying is the spring season, bursting with life and color. Running is the summer season, burning fuel and moving fast. Walking is the fall season, slowing down and easing into yet another winter."
God is faithful in whatever season you are in. This season will pass. How can you enjoy this season? What can you be thankful for today?
We long for the past, when we were 'flying high', when we felt like we were soaring above it all. "But this is not the way God works. His thoughts are not our thoughts, and our ways are not His ways. God's way is -- wait, fly, run, and walk. Which, of course, brings us right back to wait again. And so the cycle repeats -- over and over throughout the course of our lives."
“Those who bind together with the Lord, who intertwine with Him like strands in a rope, will experience the great exchange. They will find their weakness exchanged for His power; their unsteadiness exchanged for His firm resolve; their fatigue exchanged for his vigor and valor; and so on, and so on, and so on.
“They will discover that their inabilities have been exchanged for an increased capacity to produce whatever is needed in any given situation, with results that are always significant and fulfilling. They shall ascend to a higher place, and be active in effective ways.
“They shall move with speed and determination, without gasping in exhaustion, or tiring of the toil. They shall move with steady resolve along a path of purpose, not being depleted of energy, nor void of hope.”
What season are you in, how can you embrace it?
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