SEASONS

ECCL 3:1-8

1 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.

The scripture in Ecclesiastes lists different seasons that will happen in our lives.  There are many things listed there, good and bad.  Nowhere in that list does it say there is a season to give up and sit down.  It doesn’t say a time to throw up your hands and let satan win. He can only win if we quit. Other than that he has no power over our lives.

I Tim 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

We are to fight the good fight of faith. We need to dig into the Word and find things to encourage us in our faith.  We need to be a light to the world.  Giving up and quitting because someone hurt our feelings is not a reason. That is allowing our circumstances to seem bigger than our God.  No one or nothing is bigger than our God.  There is no reason to give up on Him.  He has never given up on us.

We need to use the sword of the word against the enemy.  When he tells us we are defeated, we can turn to the Word. And say satan Romans 8:37 says…Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

We need to be steadfast, unmovable in our faith. We can only have such faith by putting on the whole armor of God (Eph 6:10).  By growing in strength, grace and wisdom through the study of the word.  We can only be unmovable in our faith, once that faith gets into our spirit.  Our inward man is renewed day by day. We cannot be renewed if we don’t talk with God and spend time listening for him to speak to us.   If there is dust on the bible, that is a good sign we do not study the word enough. It needs to become a part of us.

Remember when things look bad, there is a miracle in the making.  I am sure it was scary for the three Hebrew children right before they were thrown into the fiery furnace. Right before deliverance. Things looked scary as the Pharoah and his army came racing toward the Israelites and they had nowhere to go. Right before the sea was parted. God is always on time and will protect and deliver his people, we just have to stand firm on the word of God. Ecclesiastes says there is a time for every purpose under heaven. It doesn’t say giving up is one of the things we have time to do.

It’s time to burn the ships and be determined to not turn around.  We have nowhere to go but forward. There is nothing behind us but slavery to the enemy and his minions.  There is nothing but grief and spiritual death behind us.  We are almost to our father’s house, why would we turn around and quit.

I have walked through a lot of seasons in my lifetime.  Everyone has taught me a lesson.  The constant lesson I learn is that I can put my trust in God.  He will never leave us or forsake us, he has promised to be with us through every season.