You know the routine. It’s a New Year so we make all those resolutions to exercise, lose weight, start a new career and the list goes on and on. Normally, we tend to fall away from those resolutions sometime in February or March!!
I love to watch the changes in the seasons. Some of the seasons I enjoy for the duration and others, well, not so much! When you think about it, what an amazing time in the earth as it transitions from one season to the next. Spring is about the rains coming down to feed the soil to prepare it for the life that is about to break forth. Summer is a time of the sun shining to bring growth to the vegetation. Fall takes away the scorching sun that can burn when it is too hot and brings in the cool air. You can see vibrant colors of change as the leaves submit to this transition of life. Then comes winter where things seem to go dormant to the natural eye but in all reality nutrients are being stored in the roots to prepare for the spring.
Now apply all these New Year resolutions and the seasons of life, to being a Christian. We come into the New Year making a promise that we will set more time aside to study His Word or to pray. Maybe we promise to start a Bible Study or sing in the choir at our church. Maybe we say “This is the year I am writing that book the Lord keeps laying on my heart.” Then as the months pass, those promises seem to go with them.
As Christians, we have seasons in our walk with the Lord. Many times we have troubles or trials that come pouring down on us but in all reality, they are the events that feed us and prepare our hearts for the breakthrough we have been looking for.
Many times the Son of God shines down upon us so clearly that it causes us to grow in leaps and bounds because we are so on fire for Him. During those times it is so evident that we are growing in the Lord because our character changes so deep within us that our “colors” change on the outside. It is a time when we submit unto the Lord and what He has for us.
Then there are those times when it seems like God has put us on a shelf to just sit and wait upon Him. We think those times are just wilderness experiences that are wasting away but in all reality, they are times when we are being feed the nutrients we need deep within our soul that will prepare us for what is to come.
Each one of these seasons is just as important as the other. Each one has its job to do and its purpose for creating us to be the woman of God that He has called us to be for the call He has on our life.
Which season are you in?
For Truth for Women we are in a season of hope and dreams becoming a reality. In 2010 we will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary in ministry. What better way to celebrate but to be able to open the doors of the long awaited dream of The Women’s Center Lehigh Valley. Yes, it has been a process but each step was just as important as the one before it.
Come and celebrate with us! Join your hands to the work and to the cause! Take a step out of one season and into the next.
