Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
God is a God of variety. He gave us four seasons to enjoy and everyone has it's own beauty and loveliness.
Life is very much like that and God gives us very different seasons in life to walk through with Him, some we enjoy more than others. But even if your season just now is difficult you can know it's only temporary. If it feels like winter, spring is on the way. Whatever you are going through it is not forever! It is only for a season.
Maybe you know a season for you is drawing to a close, as in my own life. For some months now God has been telling us He is moving us on to pastures new and He has more things for us to do.
But be encouraged whatever season you are in because God is in it with you. He has good days and good plans laid up for each one of us, planned since before the foundation of the world. As long as our eyes are on Him and not on people we shall hear His instructions and be led beside His still waters and get to where He is taking us.
We are the sheep of His pasture and His sheep hear His voice. Sometimes we have to take that by faith and declare it by faith because so many other voices try to crowd Him out.
But God reminds us to 'Be still and know that I am God'. How often should we do that? As often as we need to, every five minutes if that is what it takes!
He is God of our circumstances, God of our future, our eternity, but also God of our now. Our part is to remember to keep God on the throne and take the worries and anxieties of life off the throne and just follow where He leads. If we find we're fretting about something all the time, we need to recognise we're in danger of making an idol of it because we're thinking about the problem more than God, we've put it on the throne instead of God. He knows what is up ahead and He has prepared the way, He's busy making crooked paths straight. He only gives us one step at a time and we just need to trust Him, keep listening, keep obeying.
When He says stay, we stay, when He says move on, we move on.
New season, new beginning, just follow the Shepherd's instructions and all will be well.
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