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There is a Time for Everything
Macey Robinson • August 31, 2021
As we approach fall, I am reminded of how all things in life have seasons. Some seasons we enjoy more than others. For example, I love all the seasons but would rather have more of one than the other, like summer so I can enjoy the lake with my family. Or spring so I can watch all the dried-up colorless plants come back to brilliance and life. Or fall so I can cuddle around the fire with my kiddos and watch the leaves turn into magnificent color. My least favorite is winter. Being originally from New Mexico, I don't think I will ever acclimate to the harsh cold winters here in Colorado, although there is something truly breath taking about snow covered mountains.
The ebbs and flows of life are so similar to the ebbs and flows of the seasons. There is a time of planting seeds, watering and nuturing. A time for pruning and harvesting. A time to lay dorment and rest. A time to spring to life and push through. What is key to success in any season is knowing. Knowing when to push through or when to rest. In a society where it is glamorized to never rest and to be as busy as humanly possible and then some, it seems hard to ever see the season of resting, waiting, and blooming. And is the hustle life passes by, and we miss its beauty.
In our own power, we burnout. We push and push until there's nothing left. One of the biggest lessons life has taught me, and the most amazing grace is how sweetly the Lord has taught me to seek him first in all seasons. It is when we seek him first, no matter the season that we can truly rest in knowing we are in His will. Anything outside of that is merely a miss. no matter how pure the intention.
Remember today, that God has already moved mountains for you. He has sent His only son in your place. And he so sweetly has created the seasons, for I like to believe as a beautiful reminder that we too have a time of blooming, resting, starting over, and at times pushing through. Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.
Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
A Time for Everything
3 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.