EVERYTHING Has Its Season
Yesterday I received a Hobby Lobby email and it said, “Fall in love with Fall”. Then, it hit me. Fall has literally sprung up on us — school is back in session, and last weekend, the college teams’ fans were out in numbers as they sported their favorite team shirts and colors. I’m already noticing some changing of the colors of the leaves on my trees. And, last night, I even changed out some of my summer shoes for fall/winter ones.
Isn’t it amazing how God designed our world? My brilliant, scientific mind knows that seasons are the result of our planet’s tilt—when our part of the world tilts toward the sun, we get spring and summer; when it tilts away, we get fall and winter. Our Creator didn’t have to do things that way—He could have created our planet with no tilt and no seasons. But, God loves diversity, and wanted us to experience our world from the far north to the far south.
In Ecclesiastes 3:1, King Solomon wrote, “There is a time for everything, and everything on earth has its special season.” Many of us would be much more comfortable if everything always stayed the same; yet it doesn’t. EVERYTHING has its seasons. Though many like the changing of seasons in nature, they are frightened with the changing of seasons in life. They grip so tightly to the present that it becomes traumatic when things change. I know change can be difficult, but not so difficult if we learn to go through the seasons, knowing God’s divine purposes are being fulfilled. God has a purpose and a season for everything and right now each of us is in one of His seasons. It’s not about the seasons changing, but it’s NOT seeing God in the seasons.
We hear about Master Planned Communities where the developer puts in a clubhouse and pool and master-plans the number of homes and streets and curbs and amenities. Well, we have the Master Developer and Planner…who is perfectly orchestrating our lives, the seasons we go through and He plans them with our ultimate success in mind. Isn’t it time we relax and enjoy each season of our lives…..both in the climate, and in the transitions we go through? After all, He’s the MAN with THE PLAN for our good!