Witnessing in Your Season

There are parts of the earth where they experience the four seasons such as Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. And just like the weather, that changes every 3-4 months, there will be seasons of lives that will change as well.

Solomon’s message in Ecclesiastes 3, sends a powerful charge to all those who have confessed Jesus, the Christ as their Lord and Savior. In this poem, we are reminded that this is God’s world and our responses to the things of this world, whether good or bad, we can always find God’s Will and Purpose for our lives.

We serve a Sovereign God who made time and motion, cause and effect and is a God of perfect order and consequences. In Ecclesiastes 12:14 says, “For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” There are no surprises in the eyes of God. Our greatest witness to those who don’t know Christ is to trust Him in everything and in every situation. God has a perfect plan and purpose for every cycle of life and has created His perfect balances with the things of this world that will never fully conciliate us.

Everyone who enters into this world will eventually go through this season, “A time to be born and A time to die (Eccl. 3:2).” Without Jesus who gives us the peace that passes all understandings, we would never discover God’s plan or accept and recognize His perfect timing when unforeseen tragedies and triumph we face in our lives. We cannot fully explain to others why God allow things to happen us. But we can ask God to help us to embrace Ecclesiastes 3 ingredients according to His Will and His purpose in your everyday lives. Pray that through His life lessons, we will seek to act responsibly, especially when we face of life’s uncertainties and the storms of life. He will turn your mourning into laughter but not until you and I realize and accept that God is above time and is the owner of time.

Our hearts knows what seasons we are in. But our minds can’t comprehend the seasons you’re in until it connects with the heart. This is where you’ll experience and become aware of God’s presence, purpose and plan for your life. The heart is where your faith and trust in God’s only begotten Son Jesus will grow your relationship with Him. Timing is important to God and some of the experiences that are written in Ecclesiastes chapter 3 will have a time and place in each of our lives.

What season are you going through? I want to encourage you today, whatever your season is, know that Christ presence is in every Born-Again believer’s heart. He promises to walk beside us in every shifting patterns of our lives. Trust God through the seasons of your life. Be a witness to those around you while you’re going through life seasonings according to Ecclesiastes 3. Whatever season you’re in, enjoy where God has placed you and believe that He is still God and He will deliver you in His perfect timing.

Serving the Lord with Gladness,

Deacon Terri McFarlane