Life with it's Seasons!

(Ecclesiastes 3:6)  “A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;”

How I relish the moments in my life when a thought about a particular attribute of God is heightened and then quicken to my understanding. It brings with it a fresh new glimpse of His brilliance to my consideration. In order to find that, we must listen to the small still voice that can be but a whisper at times, so if we are obsessively busy with the issues of life that soft voice will elude us, we must make time in our daily routines to draw aside, be still and listen for the voice of our great God and Father. How one may ask? Find a quite time, for me it is before the sunrises, I cherish these moments, but it was not always like that, but now that I am able by the grace of God to navigate towards the still waters, planting my feet upon the rock along the water’s edge I am afforded the privilege to meditate upon the Rock of our salvation. I would encourage you to put time aside, for without it, how will we hear that small still voice if it is but a whisper? We won’t as the issues of life drown it out!

Be encouraged, find grace as we know that the ways of the righteous will find life but as for the wicked they will perish. The only time we will ever be content is when we bring forth fruit and that can only be in its season. So do not lose hope, have you ever seen a tree bear its fruit in winter if not protected from the frost? Yet through the rest of the year we must fight a little harder looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. Who enjoys tears of sorrow and chapped hands from the cold of winter? Yet without labourers who would eat from the produce? And so our lives also have seasons, it has been so ordained.

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)

Although our lives will experience all of the above, we must always be looking for the small still voice of God, as He speaks to us through His Son, as God the Holy Spirit astutely carries out His role in the believer’s life. He will teach and bring to remembrance all that the Lord Jesus has said. He will guide us into all truth and always glorify the Lord Jesus. The world cannot receive Him and yet He lives in all that have found repentance and believe in the finished work of Calvary. We now have the power to bear witness of our great Saviour, but just as our body needs food to sustain them, so too must we draw aside and drink from the waters of life in order to walk this sometimes tiresome rocky road toward the celestial city. It will be worth it all!

We have been instructed to exhort one another, so I would encourage you to find time in your daily routine to draw aside, habitually if you like, listening for our God’s glorious voice in and through His Word. There is not a place, where if we seek Him out that He will not be found. If we lie on our death bed He will be there. Whether we work, play, cry, laugh, morn, dance or even are in the process of having our financial security stripped from our lives, He will be there! Whatever our circumstance we must find solace in this truth, that our God cares for us. He has begun a perfect work and even though our lives are full of uncertainty at times, He will complete that which He has begun. All honour and praise belongs to our King. So remember to find the waters of life. Draw aside and drink, for He will never keep his love from us, all those you repent and believe on the finished work of Calvary have found life and will forever keep it.

Signing off

Tyrone