1There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:
2a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace. Ecl. 3: 1-8
We also work our lives around the four seasons of weather. When we think of the fourth of July, we think of summer. When we think of Christmas we think of snow. We get confused if it is 75 degrees at Christmas in Kentucky! And most would grumble if it were 45 degrees outside at night on the fourth of July. It just wouldn't make since to us that the seasons were messed up like that. Just like the earth has it's seasons depending on how the earth is tilted reguarding the sun, so each of us have seasons. Many times the seasons of our lives depend on how we are tilted in relation to God. When we are a child, people expect us to act like a child. People do not expect us to act like a child when we are 50 years old. If we act like a child when we should be mature we are not following the normal seasons of life. It is sad to be 50 years old and still have to get your mom to pay your bills, and wake you up, and wash your clothes. The seasons of our lives are messed up when we don't mature as we should in life. Hanging on to your youth when you are an adult doesn't make you younger, it just makes you immature.
We usually think of the seasons of our life as Baby, toddler, kid, tween, teen, young adult, adult, middle age, over the hill. Seasons are defind by age, but they are also defined by other things. Notice the seasons that God mentioned above in the book of Ecclesiates. Many of those are not defind by age at all. Most of the seasons mentioned in Ecclesiates could come at any age. Wouldn't it be simplier to find your way in life if all seasons were defined by age? Then we could know exactly what to expect in life.
If God is dealing with you about anything, it is your season to do whatever it is that he is speaking to you. Why do we put God off when He speaks? Don't you hate it when you tell your kids, 'clean your room' and they reply, 'I will later.' If we wanted them to do it later we would have told them later. We usually mean for them to get up and do it NOW. If God is speaking something to you right now and you are struggling against it and have not been obedient to God it is time to turn around and obey HIM now. Why? Because your season to do that particular thing could pass, and you could miss it. When we miss God we always miss a blessing for ourselves and for others.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. Jn. 6:44
If God is drawing you to himself now, don't think that you have forever to decide. He may not draw you later, you may not even have a desire for him later. Don't think that the desire to give your life to him will stay with you always. Don't miss your season. Now is the time to say yes, when you are being drawn by the Father. If God is asking you to preach, now is the time to say yes. If God is asking you to give, now is the time to give. If God is asking you to be a witness, now is the time to witness. If God is telling you to go to church, now is the time to get up and go. You may not have the desire to when this season passes, and you may miss the good thing that God would have done in your life.
He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him." Jn. 6:65
That desire that you have for God is coming from the Father. How many times do we look back on our lives and think, wow, when I had that chance, why didn't I take it. Or we say something like, If I had it to do all over again I wish I would have...It is time to start living a life of no regrets. Live each day as if it were the only day that counted, and do what God is asking you to do for this day. Don't put it off to tomorrow, don't live in the excuses of years gone by, just live each day for the best.
