Embracing Seasons


Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven” 

We all have our own timelines, our ideals, the way in which we want things to happen for us. We want to always progress, always want to feel like we are on the move towards great things. Unfortunately, not every time in our lives feel like our best moment. 

There are times we feel dry, unproductive, or that we’re underutilizing our potential. Maybe it’s a job you know you are overqualified for, and it does not seem like you’re progressing anytime soon or you are caught up in a weird spot where you have no idea where exactly your life is going; you’re just going with the flow and hoping it all works out. It could even be a particular time in your life where you just keep getting hit with one loss or the other. We’ve all been there. 

The weight of unfulfillment is a truly heavy one to bear. The sense of falling behind is not an easy one to carry, so the heaviness that comes with those periods of life are understandable and we daresay, valid.

Today, we want to encourage you from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, and the verse 11. We know for sure that there are seasons to our lives but it is never easy actually embracing them. The hustling, grinding and building are the easy part when it comes to seasons. The hoping, keeping the faith, the joy and walking in God’s peace are the harder aspects of a dry season. 

To be truly happy for a brother or sister doing so well while you hold on to very shaky grounds is not natural to the flesh. Here’s something we found “ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men’s hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

That sense that you have to do more, achieve more and be more and even to at least catch a glimpse of what God’s plan is for you, is intentionally placed in you by God so that you will seek Him in order to find it. It is your place in eternity calling out to you. Wow! That sounds so daunting! But no, not really! 

Our sense of failure or success truly comes from our own timelines but by embracing the seasons in which we find ourselves, we get to bend our will in surrender to God’s will and the timelines that God has ordained and purposed for us to walk in. The planting season teaches a farmer a different lesson from the harvest season. If the planting is not done right, there would be little to no harvest. So see your season now as one that God is using as a channel to draw you in so that you take off in due season.

One interesting thing I discovered is the rut; the mating season of most mammals. According to wikipedia, the timing of the rut depends on the length of the gestation period, usually occurring so the young are born in the spring, shortly after new growth has appeared, thereby providing food for the females, allowing them to provide milk for the young; and the favourable temperatures prevent hypothermia in the young ones. God in His infinite wisdom, timed the seasons of these animals so that by the time their young were born, the structures and necessary conditions for thriving are already in place. 

God has this mind for you, that in the season of your manifestation, you do not miscarry your vision and purpose. However, the work, the shaping and the moulding of your character, principles, lessons and strategies are found in the long, cold, dry, cloudy winter seasons of your life. Embrace it!! Learn from it and grow exponentially from it. Grow closer to God and experience true peace and joy to carry you through.

So the next time you feel tempted to say you are stuck, quickly tell your soul that you are right where God needs you to be and you will draw all that this current season needs to teach you in preparation for the springtime of your life. You're not stuck, you're in TRANSITION.

Be blessed.


Your friends,

Becky and Sharon



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