Here are the things I learned that I want to share with you upon listening to one of Steven Furtick's video podcast on the series "Time and Seasons":
#1 Every season has struggles that you cannot see or know until you're in it.
As Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, God has made everything beautiful in its time. That's why it is very important to remind ourselves not to be envied towards the season of other people because we do not know what they are going through or has to go through to be in their current state or position. Achievements and freedom are two different things. Some would rather exchange their success with freedom. You never know.
May you be reminded as you read this to be contented with the season God has planned for you, always; how may be tiring and unenduring they may get, I pray that God will grant you the courage not to hope for an skip but to ask God instead that when the time of wanting to give up comes, you will be close enough to God to hear Him as He calls you by name whenever you become deaf and lose sight of the very purpose why you have to experience whatever season it is.
#2 Every season is shaped by what you say.
When we started overwhelming ourselves with rants and complaints like we seem to say that we do not deserve such season, we tend to focus on the negative points rather than looking at the brighter side and be grateful to God that whatever might happen, still, we should be glad because we have no control over our schedules but God does. In fact, we will never experience His best plans in His timing if He has given us the full control in our lives. Isn't He amazing that in the midst of our questions to Him, it really shows how sovereign, powerful, and mighty God is? Personally, I find it awesome. Hihi.
#3 Every season has strengths that you can seize.
God lets us to encounter different seasons for us to be moulded just like a pot of clay; to adapt to weathers especially to the ones we never expect coming and to circumstances that often go unnoticed. We may never attain perfection but at least we become someone who God wants us to be, if we allow Him to. Honestly, often do I find myself confused to season God puts me into. Sometimes, I ask, is it really God putting me here? Or is it the enemy's way to ruin and attack me? Yet Daniel 2:21 says, God changes times and seasons. Our role is to acknowledge that God is giving us this opportunity to grow spiritually as an individual and as His child. We must claim it in His Name that this is a new season and it's already on us; it's indeed a new season and we're already in it.
Satisfaction, humility, acceptance and faith to the One who challenges us to be the Christ-like image and reflection of the One who became the ultimate substitution are all what it takes to see the beauty in every season that we are in and going to be part of.
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