Seasons

"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven..." Ecclesiastes 3: 1

As the season changes from Winter into Spring and now slowly into Summer, I see the brilliance of God revealing Himself in the Earth! The trees have started to give way to fresh green leaves, flowers are pushing forth new buds, the grass begins to poke its way out of the earth and the chirping of birds grows ever so crisp to my ears. This is creation showing forth the glory of the Father; this is the magnificence of our Lords beauty; the awesome display to his sovereignty.  As I observed this display of God's handiwork, I realized that my natural life and spiritual relationship with God go through seasons of change.

The natural always reflects the spiritual and just as the seasons naturally change, they spiritually change as well. I believe that one of the most interesting things about change is how the natural seasons that we encounter are symbolic of the spiritual seasons that God matures us in. We go through our Springs of change where there is new growth and an abundance of rain to nurture our spiritual development; our Summers of change, where we show off our glow from our moments of meditation and being in the presence of God; our Falls of change, where our leaves are stripped away, the cold winds blow on our deepest pains, and we experience shorter days and longer nights; our Winters of change, where we experience brisk, bone chilling temperatures, snow fall ,and the dormancy and hibernation that force us to be still enough to hear the voice of our God in the coldest moments of our lives.

The importance of these seasons are for us to learn how to connect to God's time-table and to flow with the seasons of live that he is bringing us through; whether it be the shedding of our incongruities during Fall, the cold damp cloudy moment during Winter, the revitalization during Spring or the revelation of his glory during Summer. All these seasons greatly work to become the episodes of live that bring us into the fullness of the knowledge of God!     ---D. Sherow, Jr.