Season. It’s not something we like to hear when it comes to our own lives and hearts and relationships.
Though we are fine with seasons in nature. We look forward to spring, the fun of summer, the beauty of fall, and sometimes even of winter. We know seasons come and know seasons go.
The challenge we have personally is that seasons do not have a set time frame. We can’t depend on a hard season of the soul ending in the month of March. Nor can we plan on winter coming when it does.
Seasons are still of God, even in our lives, even in our relationships. Times will get bad. Times will get better. But not on a predictable time frame. The human time frame is a much more complex depth that God understands far beyond us.
In Psalm 1 it talks about how those who meditate and dwell on the Word night and day will be fruitful in season. Does season mean all the time that it’s visible? No. In winter time, we don’t see what is happening in the life of the fruit tree. It looks dormant and dead. But it’s not because nothing is happening. It is. We just don’t see it. We only see it in season.
In our lives, we have seasons where it feels like we are plowing ahead, digging deep in the Lord, praying, worshiping, fasting, and diong the stuff, and yet not seeing anything. Not seeing fruitfulness. Not seeing prayers answered. Not seeing what we hope for.
Does it mean nothing is happening? That there is no hope ahead? That God’s purposes are somehow being thwarted in our lives because we are not enough?
Not at all. It’s like a season. And some seasons last a really long time.
The point is that when we are in a season of not seeing fruit, not seeing answered prayers, not seeing what we hope for, that’s the season we let our roots dig deeper. Our foundation to become more well-laid. And that we do not give up.
Because at the proper time we will reap a harvest. IF we do not lose hope. But rather rest in the process.
I am in a season right now. I don’t see the end date.
The Lord reminded me though that he puts people in seasons just like he does the planet. If we trust, and wait, it will eventually change as He puts us where He wants us.
Be patient.
Be long-suffering.
And remember…it’s a season.