A New Season

 What's On My Heart Today

My Wilderness Journey "A New Season"

I never used to think about my life in seasons. I never thought about what they meant. But there is a world of wealth in knowing an understanding how God moves us in and through the seasons of our life. Here is a golden nugget that I have learned from this season. It is God who sets the season's in our life. It is God who walks through them with us. It is God who brings us to the other side. When it's all over and you are standing before a season of grace, you will know God in a tangible and much, much deeper way, and it will change you forever.

 

"Oh taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!" Psalm 34:8

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"A New Season"

"He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority." Acts 1:7

Have you ever wondered why God created seasons? Instead of seasons, He easily could have made the earth to be in continual harvest. But He didn’t. Why? God built change into the fabric of nature. It is what makes our world so beautiful. He created our life to flow through seasons with a specific purpose. It is a part of God’s ultimate plan that we go through and grow through our seasons so that we may walk in the season of blessing. After all we should have learned a lot during all the seasons we had to go through to get to the harvest.

 "For I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content." Philippians 4:11

 

No matter what season that stands before you, your future is bright with the promises of God. God has designed your future, and He has designed you for the future. He has given you something to do that no one else can do. "For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11. While your waiting, don't let yourself get so busy that you miss those little but important nuggets God puts into your everyday. The beauty of a day, the smile of a friend, the hugs of a loved one. For it is often life's smallest pleasure and gentlest joys that make the biggest and most lasting difference. There are no shortcuts to where were going. The patterns of our seasons, they are always changing, rearranging, and each design is unique, graced with its own special beauty.

 

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love the Lord." 1 Corinthians 2:7

We don't have to be in the midst of a valley season or on the mountain top of abundance, there is somewhere in the waiting for the next season that we can learn to be content. Not living in fear of what is to come, but in reflecting where God has brought us from. Contentment is not the fulfillment of what we want, but the realization of how much we already have. God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy and be content.

"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." Genesis 8:22

Our hearts are made for joy. Our hearts were made to enjoy the One who created them. Too deeply planted to be much effected by the seasons of our life. This joy is knowing and being known by our Creator. Live for this season but hold your hands open for the next. Anticipate the future and all it's changes with joy. There is a seed of God's love in every season. No matter the season you face tomorrow, it will bring you to a better place and you will be richer for the journey.

"Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls." Jeremiah 6:16

Tomorrow "All is Well With My Soul"