There's always distinct characteristics that you can recognize when seasons change. It may be a bit harder for Texans to recognize when the seasons actually change, but nonetheless, they do! As the trees here in the North are starting to change from green --> red -->orange -->yellow I think about how seasons change in our lives. This current season I am in is that of much gratitude for my Father in Heaven. This season, despite this broken world, I am learning and seeing glimpses how He has designed and intended things to be. Another thing is He is showing me that he is a Giver, The Giver of good gifts. When I ask with a right heart, ask with belief that He will give; He does-according to His will, my good, and His glory.
As I think about this season I also think about previous seasons of my life just as Solomon describes in Ecclesiastes 3 where I have just mourned with a weak heart, danced, wept, laughed at days to come, kept, and cast away...etc. In those different seasons of my walk just as the distinct characteristics of new seasons here; so my heart has them also. I grow in what I hunger and thirst for. I hunger to trust Him more. I thirst to be in his presence more. I hunger to know Him more. I hunger for wisdom through His Word more. I grow in new tastes for things; things that are holy, righteous, and pure. What I once yearned for, I no longer do. What I searched for satisfaction in, I grow in distaste.
All the more I am growing in wisdom and belief in the abounding
characteristics of God. All the more as seasons change I become more and
more dependent on The Lord in every circumstance. How gracious of The
Lord to do that?! How humbling and easy yoked am I as I grow in belief that He sustains everything. I see that He is faithful because He has never left me. I see that He provides because I have never been without anything I didn't need. I see that He is the God of all comfort. I see that He
is pleased because I am His daughter. In every season that changes my God is constant and true, I can rest and have confidence in that.
This is His will for us: our sanctification. Oh, brothers and sisters, to be more and more like Jesus.
