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| Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven.
After winter comes the summer, After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
The human experience is filled with anticipation of the good things and dread of the bad. We have dreams, goals, hidden desires, and needful impulses. When we most expect fruit and fulfillment, we find non. Often when we expect barrenness, God gives fruit. The seasons of life frustrate us.
In Ecclesiastes, Solomon, has seen seasons come and go. He knows the cyclical patter of living is not just a matter for meteorologists, it's also a matter for relationships, labor, and the myriad emotions we have. In our lives, there WILL be the unfruitful seasons. There WILL be times of discouragement and even despair. There WILL be pointless tasks and intractable conflict. Interspersed with all the joys of the human experience, there will be latent seasons, periods of fallow ground and backward regress. It won't be all good, all the time.
That's important for us to know. We'll drive ourselves crazy if we don't understand that there are seasons in our lives. If you're particularly fruitless now..........or even fruitful.......know that it's only for a time. . We have to get used to constant change.
Many Christians kick themselves or question God when life isn't running smoothly. Don't. It's only for a season. Do not expect your entire year to be warm and sunny. Part of it will be cold and rainy. And if you're in winter now, know that spring is on the way. It's time always comes.
We are ALL born under the law of God. we need not to look at others to compare where we are or who we are. We are to only compare ourselves to whom we were born , Jesus, Our Lord and Savior. Our greatest potential is our relationship with Jesus. Galatians 4:4-5 But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons.
Proverbs 14:30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
FOR IT IS WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.
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| What a wonderful message this morning, LJ. Thank you for ministering to us what are, afterall, the facts of life. As the Word tells us, "in this life there will be tribulation"...awww, but what awaits those that are saved makes our tribulations so small compared to the glory that awaits us!
Any time I hear the gospel pertaining to the seasons of life, I remember the song from the show, "The Facts of Life"...you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have...the facts of life! LOL.
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Amen. We need to remember this when things aren't going how we'd like them to. We are to give thanks for the bad things as well, because God is putting us through it for a reason, even if we don't know why. | |
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Location: OKLAHOMA | Thank you LJ. Love this one. In the midst of the yuky season it is hard to remember the season will change. The promises are coming.
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