February 8th, 2022
by CJ Terry
by CJ Terry
February 8, 2022
As I awoke today, I had Ecclesiastes 3:1 on my heart, which says, ‘To everything there is a season.’
To me the list that follows is the list I would call ‘life.’ It is the list of everyday life. We will all have the opportunity to live each one of the following in our lives. There will be days to laugh, weep, gain, to gather or even lose, those days we give love, and days we need to receive love, and, as you know, the list goes on. Parts of this list will touch every part of our lives sooner or later. We will be challenged, tested, and, yes, even stressed with every human emotion we have.
Some seasons seem to last longer than others do. But the encouragement we should gain from those days is this: First, they are only for a season, no matter what, they will come to an end. Second, there is a purpose for the seasons. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, ‘He has made everything beautiful in its time.’
It does not matter the season that I find myself in. The purpose for the season is finding the beauty of God in the season I am in. Some might call some of those times troubling. Others may say they are trials or the testing of faith and all may have valid reasons to think so. What I want from my seasons is the knowledge that can be gained from them. It's how I look and react to the seasons that will make all the seasons beautiful.
We cannot do anything about the seasons. But we can do something about how we see the seasons we are in. They are seasons God designed perfectly for me to live in before time was.
Psalm 118: 24
As I awoke today, I had Ecclesiastes 3:1 on my heart, which says, ‘To everything there is a season.’
To me the list that follows is the list I would call ‘life.’ It is the list of everyday life. We will all have the opportunity to live each one of the following in our lives. There will be days to laugh, weep, gain, to gather or even lose, those days we give love, and days we need to receive love, and, as you know, the list goes on. Parts of this list will touch every part of our lives sooner or later. We will be challenged, tested, and, yes, even stressed with every human emotion we have.
Some seasons seem to last longer than others do. But the encouragement we should gain from those days is this: First, they are only for a season, no matter what, they will come to an end. Second, there is a purpose for the seasons. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, ‘He has made everything beautiful in its time.’
It does not matter the season that I find myself in. The purpose for the season is finding the beauty of God in the season I am in. Some might call some of those times troubling. Others may say they are trials or the testing of faith and all may have valid reasons to think so. What I want from my seasons is the knowledge that can be gained from them. It's how I look and react to the seasons that will make all the seasons beautiful.
We cannot do anything about the seasons. But we can do something about how we see the seasons we are in. They are seasons God designed perfectly for me to live in before time was.
Psalm 118: 24
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