This is how I see the four seasons of our human lives:
Spring – The Season We Experience New Beginnings.
Summer – The Season Where All Is In Full Bloom.
Autumn – The Season In Which A Transformation takes Place.
Winter – The Season Where Reflection Is Done On The First Three.
Seasons come and they go. And for everything under the sun there is a season; regulating the course of our lives as it begins and ends. We can see the ritual of the seasons when looking at a beautiful sunshining welcoming day. The birds began chirping in the trees, or positioning themselves on fence posts, or roof tops to announce the beginning of spring, followed by summer. Then they go about finding nesting material, on the ground, to start their homes and families. There may be a slight chill in the air and a breeze blowing as winter still tries and holds fast to its position, reluctantly bowing out. But slowly and with an unwillingness to succumb, it begins to gather its last remnant of harshness, gloomy, and no/ or very little growth and fade into the memory, yielding to the vibrant, upbeat, life renewing, of spring. In other word like a lion, it roars emphatically one last time, to make room for the bright, fullness of life, growing, blooming, and multiplying seasons, spring, and summer. Knowing that after the cycle is completed, fall, with its Horatio horn blowing self, announces the end of energetic growth and follows spring and summer, it will return with its duties to perform. And it starts all over again. The spring, summer, fall, and winter seasons of our lives.
Like the seasons, put in place by God, which we experience yearly, seasons in our lives. They come and go and are sometimes beautiful and productive (spiritually and naturally) or they can be harsh, with no growth whatsoever (this is the time we must hold on extra tight to our Father’s unchanging hand. And we must respect these seasons of our life because God made them according to His purpose to help us render good works for Him (not of our own doing). These are the seasons of our lives as I see them, according to God’s Word. During whichever one we are in, we must stand firm, on the Word (Jesus) and know that we will learn how to adapt, navigate, and thrive in each one.
Spring is the time to prepare self for the new year; set down new outlook and focus on that which is important. It is a time to rework, repair, rejuvenate, and restore all that needs new attention and growth. If you think about it and become connected with Jesus (our Lord and Saviour), you will see that when we view our lives’ mission and purpose as God does, it will become apparent that we experience blooming, growth, regeneration, explosion of ideas, strength, enthusiasm, start new goals, and dream new dreams in this season. During this new beginning we are to seek without hesitation, the will and way of God, through our Lord Jesus Christ so that we will know what is expected of us and how it is to be done. This makes whatever obstacle, trial, trouble, or test, we must face, in any particular season, easier to bear as we go through it– doing it the way the LORD says do it. So, when the new spring in your life has sprung don’t fight against it but know that it is a good thing to start something anew. That it is time to set out on a new journey, exhibiting the strength, confidence, boldness, and conqueror mentality you have found in Christ. It is with the knowledge that your God, YHWH, has given you the provision, joy, peace, and patience to open up yourself to the other seasons, that will follow, which encourages these changes.
In the spring of our lives, we find that it is the beginning of that which is “new”. That which is coming did not exist before; it is made, introduced, or discovered most recently and now for the first time it will be revealed. New varieties will break away the bleakness of winter by bringing forth new growth: in life, love, hopes, dreams (spiritually and naturally). From the spring, we slip into the summer of our life where we experience (if seeds of love, faith, joy, trust; all the good fruits are planted) full growth; an abundance of new life, an excellent harvest. We secure our faith in love and proceed with continuous planting and nurturing. Sowing and getting in the mix of the idea of reaping that which will be produced by your faithfulness. We encourage what has been started both in our spiritual and natural life; cultivation of joy through Christ our Lord and Saviour.
In the fall of your life, you take stock in the newness you have started and for that which you do not see as a help for your dreams, goals, and coming up higher in the LORD, you begin to shed away. This season is the time for getting rid of all that is hindering, or have become a burden to you, finish goals; walk around your garden of life and get rid of the weeds (hatred, anger, disappointment, projects that are not going anywhere, etc., in other words clean out your closet) and began to prepare for the next season, winter – the season of rest and reflection.
Winter is the season to calm down and take stock of your life’s circumstances and situations and prepare (with the help of the Good Lord) to do what it takes to overcome them. It is the time to rest from all the hustle and bustle of life; being content, but not stagnant; still working for the kingdom of God but not in a worldly way; sharing and caring for others. And take into consideration your health, mind, body, heart, and soul by striving for true love, happiness, peace, in every season of your life. Because even in the twilight of our last season, we must not give up or give in to the whims of this world. But stick to the plan YHWH, God, has for us, through His Son, our Lord and Saviour. Because God has given those who trust, believe, and hope in Him, the wisdom and knowledge to know and understand His reasoning for the seasons of our lives. Yet no man, unless revealed, can fathom what God, according to the separation of life’s seasons, has done, is doing, and will do from the beginning to the end. He has made everything beautiful (bad, good, or ugly) in His time; to work according to His will. Let’s therefore, enjoy every season of our lives and go with God’s flow, in Jesus’ name! GOD’S GOT IT, NO WORRY, NO FEAR.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:11-12 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. 12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.