But God….
Ecclesiastes 3:1 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
Read the list that follows this passage; read of how your life is as ever changing as the seasons of the year, how as you become accustomed, change begins, and the transitions renew. Your life is a season, full of many seasons, and God allows or designs all of them. You go through highs, seemingly always followed by lows, but in the seasons of valleys your faith will give the assurance of mountaintops again. These seasons build your faith, mold you into the image of Christ that God’s desire is for you to become more like him. Think of how the brother of Jesus, James, wrote of these trials, or of how the Apostle Paul’s pinnacle writing in the New Testament, Romans, of how he wrote God works through them. Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.
I went from a mountaintop in 2017 off a cliff in 2018. I have never had my dreams crushed in one fail blow like a couple months ago, seemingly putting me the closest to a mental breakdown ever. I have felt a depressions as never before, loosing the drive and desire to maintain, yet my faith endures to the end, and gives me strength to carry on. We had another huge family talk last night, of plans and seasons, and of “if God wills” then it will be. We talked about our faith, and of how I cannot force it on the boys, for they will turn their backs upon God if I do. I have lived that, forcing church upon someone, still witness it being taught and preached today, and I had a couple powerful talks about religiosity in recent weeks. It breaks my heart to see how so many people think they gain the entrance into heaven by their church attendance, and of how those who don’t go are doing something wrong. Being bound by the Old Covenant is what Jesus abolished, the Old Testament law satisfied, and now the draw to corporate worship and teaching is a blessing, but not a requirement to the keys to paradise. The understanding of John 14:6, and the daily relationship you have with your Savior is.
These seasons of life bring about changes, and the changes can effect our attitudes that everyone witness. I just read of how today’s society wants nothing of God, because they want nothing of Christians. What does that say of our witness, of our hypocrisy, of our lives outside of Sunday? What we do the other 6.5 days a week could be effecting the eternity of those around us each day. 2 Timothy 2:24 And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. Whatever season you might be in, know God allowed it for a reason. Pursue God because of it, testify of him in it, and witness of him after it. But God…….
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