Seasons

Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
 
Sports make sense for a number of reasons, but one of those reasons is because they have a distinct starting and stopping point. This starting and stopping point is known as a SEASON. No matter how difficult or successful the season is, there is a sense of urgency because you know it will end. You want to soak up all you can when it’s going great, and you can’t wait for it to be over when it’s going bad. But is it possible to learn more in a tough season than a good one? Is God still good in the losing seasons or is He only good during the winning seasons? Ponder that question and reply with your thoughts if you’d like. 
 
In life, there are also seasons. However, a lot times in life, we don’t know when these seasons are going to start and we rarely know when they are going to end. Some of these we do know, such as seasons of parenting, travel, moving, etc. But what about the seasons we don’t anticipate and we don’t know when they will end. Seasons such as sickness, unemployment, tragedy, loss, rebellion, addiction, depression, failure, brokenness, or unexpected success. I’ve learned that all of life is a season in one way or another, and it’s important to embrace each season because God has sovereignly allowed it in our lives. I’ve found that God usually doesn’t change a circumstance in my life until my fulfillment and peace no longer depend on the circumstance being changed. He loves us too much to allow us to put our hope in the fickleness of the ever changing circumstances and seasons. He does this so we will anchor our hope in Him and the finished work of Jesus on the cross.  Whatever season you are in today, I challenge you to embrace it, allow God to work in it, because He’s trying to teach you something through it.
After all, the good and the bad seasons are sovereignly allowed by the same Holy God. 
 
Job 2:10
Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?”