Happy birthday to us. Kathy and I celebrate our birthdays today 139 years of combined life experience.
It’s getting into late autumn. The trees are increasingly bare, and the pathways, roads and trails are more covered in fallen leaves. It isn’t a surprise; it happens every year and will continue until this world passes away. Everything has a season.
The writer of Ecclesiastes reminds us …
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 ESV
If you are of a certain age, you just heard that in song. Turn, turn, turn.
Whether you heard it in a song or read it, it rings true. Everything comes with a season. Sometimes everything goes as it should, and things look like they might get even better. Other times, everything that can go wrong does, and there is nothing but bad news on the horizon. Most of us spend the bulk of our lives between the two extremes.
Whatever season we are in, God remains in control. He sits on His throne and never varies in his love, mercy or character.
For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. Malachi 3:6 ESV
Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but you are the same, and your years have no end. Psalm 102:25-27 ESV
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8 ESV
Whatever season you are in, you can hold fast to the Lord. If you are His, He holds you fast, and nothing can ever take you away from Him. He will never let you go.
Hold fast and praise His name no matter your circumstances.
Be blessed Kevin
SUMMARY
Everything in this life has a season, and the seasons keep changing. Whatever season you are in, the Lord does not change, so hold fast to Him and praise His name.
TAKEAWAY
Everything comes with a season. Some go better than we hoped, some go wrong in every way, and most of us live somewhere in between.
Whatever season we are in, God remains in control. He never varies in His love, mercy or character.
If you are His, He holds you fast and will never let you go. So hold fast to Him and praise His name, no matter your circumstances.
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