Relishing the Season
God says, “I know the plans that I have for you, they are plans for good and not disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
He goes further onto say, ” For in those days when you pray, I WILL listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you WILL find me. I WILL be found by you,” says the Lord. Jeremiah 29:11-14
I’ve spent the last several days trying to think of what to write about. In what way have I messed up so that I can tell the world how God picked up the mess. It’s been six months almost to the T since I wrote about my new year experience of coming back from disastrous desires. I’ve had my failures and victories, things I did and didn’t do that I’d set off to do, and things that were unexpected and should have been expected.
Today as I rode my bike this morning I realized something, I heard nothing. No chatter of voices in my mind speaking of the disappointments, no river flow of anxiety and worry in my heart, no sudden signs of where am I going and who am I? Just the sound and feel of a gentle quiet spirit finding its summer season, its freedom in the Son. For quite some time it has seemed to be the season to seek the beauty in sometimes, a not so beautiful life. I’ve listened on the radio, in my prayers, and from so many others, that they are shutting their mouths of complaining and sulking in hopes of growing winsome words that will root themselves deep into their heart to take the residence of the thoughts and words that once were.
I’ve waited for a long time to have this season to come take its place in my life. A season in which God is more than enough, in which the days are spent in conversation with Him, seeking Him, hearing Him, and where most of your love is poured directly through Him, from Him, and before Him. A season that has set forth a wild but glorious change within you because of Him and fear takes no form in your past, present or future. The place in life where the verse above is a description of your current status, because where man has failed you God will not fail you. And in those time’s where failure from others and from yourself come, having a God that is more than sufficient and a God that says in your weakness I am strong, will be the veil the covers our disappointments and defeats.
So,
Dear God,
Thank you for being the God of all seasons, and the God who is with us in every season.
Amen.
