Understanding the Seasons of Life

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…
Ecclesiastes 3:1

Summer is fading fast and autumn is just around the corner.  The warmth and long hours of light will soon be replaced by cloudy days and colder temperatures.   What a change!  After that it will be winter, the next thing you know it will be spring and then summer again. But why does summer have to turn into autumn?  Why should the leaves die and fall to the ground.  Why loose all the beauty?  Can’t we have summer all year round?

Change is unavoidable.  It comes and it goes, and it comes right back again.

It is comforting to know that it is God who has set the seasons of life.  As He has set the seasons of the year with its purpose, God sets our lives into different times and seasons because He has a purpose for us.  Each season holds a different setting into which our lives must find its part and relevance.  As we discover and ponder the meaning of each moment, circumstance and season of our lives, we begin to understand our purpose for living.

THE KEY IS BEING ABLE TO ENJOY EVERY LESSON OF EACH SEASON.

If we do not understand that there is a purpose for every experience, we will not be able to appreciate the beauty of life.  We must accept that there are times of rejoicing as well as times of weeping knowing that there is a reason behind every season; and that the next step is to learn something from every season.  Instead of feeling anxious about the coming season, we anticipate what God will teach us next.

Which season of life are you in right now? What are the changes that God is bringing to your life?  What is God teaching you? Are you learning?  Are you enjoying every lesson of each season?

Bro. André Canlas

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