When God Put You In A Season

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 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens - Ecclesiastes 3 (NIV)

Ecclesiastes 3 mentions that in our human life, there are many seasons that we have gone through in our lives and will go through in the future. There are season of joy, season to work hard, season to be successful, season to build our lives. But there are also seasons when we will experience hardship, lost, disappointment, and weep.

 

What season are you in right now? Are you in a season of joy or are you in a season of weeping? Whatever you are right now, you must know that either of this season has the same characteristic, they don’t last forever. That is why it is called a season.

 

When we are in a good comforting season with full of joy and abundant, we always want this to last as long as it can be. But we do not want to dwell even for one day on the season which gives us a discomfort. Therefore in this week sharing, I would like to focus on the season which none of us like, which is a season of sorrow.

When God allows us to be in a season of weeping, fear, and discouragement we want it to be ended as soon as possible. No human wants to endure hardship for a long time especially if this will only give us bad memories. The length of the season varies from one person to another and from one season to another. Sometimes it ends quite quickly, but many times it has to go to the worst before it gets better. This difficult season that we may experience can be because of our wrong doing or by external cause that we didn’t know or anticipate. These external causes could be an attack from our enemy who wants to stop us from progressing to the next level of our spiritual walk with God. Nevertheless we need to be strong in our faith to God so we can go through this together with Him until the end.

 

Based on my personal experience with the seasons that I have gone through, I can summarise the important things that we should know if we are in a difficult season in our lives:

 

1. Your basic foundation must be His love for you.

Regardless anything that happened in your life right now, know that He loves you passionately. Be firm in your mind that He will never leave you or forsake you in whatever you are going through.

(Hebrews 13:5 (TPT): …For hasn’t he promised you, “I will never leave you alone, never! And I will not loosen my grip on your life!”

 

2. Understand that you are not alone going through this.

Sometimes knowing that we are not the only one who experience season of sorrow seems to enlight our burden. Our brothers and sisters in Christ also have and will be put in a season in their journey with God. This is one of the way that God uses to enlarge our capacity, increase our faith and keeping our trust in Him. Try to open your eyes and ears to your surroundings. You will hear that people around you are also going through some tough times or even much worse than what you are currently experiencing. That way you may feel grateful to God that you are not in the worst situation.

 

3. Surround yourself in Godly environment.

People around you is very important to determine how far you can go to reach your destiny. Every seasons that God allows you to enter is part of the journey to reach your destiny. You need to surround yourself with people who can help you to reach the destination of where God initially planned for you. God has planned a great end line in your life. But it is you who are walking on it. You cannot make it to the end line victoriously alone. People you need in your life is your pastors, spiritual leaders, families who loves you, church family, and your friends who will always pray and support you all the way to the end line. Make sure you have them secured in your life.

 

4.  Your reward is waiting when it is all over

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him. – James 1: 12 (NIV)

Our God is a God who loves to reward us. He doesn’t let us suffer then leave us alone in the end. He wants to spoil us with His kindness. Believe that after your season ends, not only you are out of it, but God will reward you with things that you never anticipated. I experienced a lot of things when I finally out from my season, He couldn’t wait to pour me His abundant blessings beyond that I could imagine.

 

Therefore I want to encourage to all of you who read my blog, stay faithful in Him when you are put in a season. Stay close with the people who loves you and who will always pray for you. You need them to accompany you to finish the season. And lastly, remember always that our heavenly Father will crown you with huge reward once you are done with the season.

 

Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you are encouraged.

 

Comments

  1. Pit Djan31 January 2021 at 12:13

    The same with Merry, I'm also very confident to say that God never fail to reward us once we are done with the season. Just make sure we don't waste every precious lesson from every season that's supposed to make us more humble.

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