God divided one earthly year into four periods. We refer to these periods as “Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.” The name given to these periods is season, distinct with its own daylight hours and weather patterns. The fluctuating position of the earth, in relationship with the sun, contributes each season with a certain climate that allows man to plan a particular event, activity, or process. Man has become adapt in predicting the change of seasons, and preparing for the arrival of different patterns of weather and temperature.
As we experience changes in natural seasons, such is so for changes in spiritual seasons as well. Just as one natural season may be considerably harsher in temperament than another, this analogy can be made with regard to the spirit realm too. In seasons of abundance, for instance spring and summer, we gather and stockpile harvest in anticipation for harsher growth periods within the year, such as fall and winter.
To grow and mature in our spirituality, we learn that bad times are like the natural seasons, “it too shall pass.” We can now approach life with the understanding that God formed the earth to include periods of time distinctive in ways that causes man to expect bleaker conditions during these stages and to plan accordingly. When life is going great, pray for provisions of growth, strength, and endurance, in preparation for the winter season. Having spiritual food stored up, allows us to trust in our faith that better times are coming and this season will not last. So put on the Armor of God, as we would wear warm clothing in the winter, and trust that warmer days are forthcoming. Seasons dictate to us which activities to engage. “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.”
There are spiritual rhythms that can be compared to seasons of the year. Embrace each season with divine expectation, knowing God is behind the meaningful synchronicity.
Conquer the misconceptions within our limited reality by breaking away from the blind conformity of unnecessary customs, negative people, and events. Achieve greater awareness of God, self, and the world through God’s transformative Word. Allow the many dimensions of spiritual truths to come into focus.
Winter only feels like the longest season when we stand “naked and afraid” like a tree in the forest. As born again, spirit-filled Christians, we align ourselves close to the Son of God to receive every promise and provision He has stored away for each of us. Pray to God for an opening of the self, and His Word converts, impels, sustains, and unmasks during every spiritual season of life.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
3 “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
1 Corinthians 3:6-9
6 “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.”
Jeremiah 31:12
12 “Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.”
Daniel 2:21
21 “And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:”
Acts 1:7
7 “And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.”
1 Thessalonians 5:1
5 “But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.”
Psalm 104:19
19 “He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.”
Matthew 21:41
41” They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.”