Seasons of Change, A God of Consistency

As the years unfold and time goes by I have learned that seasons in life change just as in nature. It is so easy to be motivated when the sun shines and a nice breeze washes across your face on a warm spring day, but when the harsh heat of summer hits here in Alabama and the temperature hits 105 with no breeze you begin to long for the cool days of Fall. As the mild cool days of fall begins we relax and enjoy the respite from those hot days and enjoy the cool, crisp mornigs. All to soon they fade and the dark, cold, rainy days of winter comes. Temperature in the single digits and frozen water makes you long for the warm spring days and the gentle breezes. Its a cycle that repeats year after year with very little change. Our spiritual lives are no different. We go through periods of blessing and spiritual highs, easy to worship and easy to break through and walk in the Holy Ghost, but when those times of ease fade away we began to wonder what we have done to deserve this change in our lives. Often it is nothing more than a opprtunity of growth in our lives. See, here in our climate we have to have the cold, freezing weather and lots of rain to reset our growing cycle for a new season of growth to occur in the next phase. When life gets a little dark, cold and it seems the sun may not ever shine, take this as a time to prepare for growth. Get deeper in prayer, worship harder, study the word until its imprinted on your heart and in your mind. The season will change but its up to you and I to make sure we are available when it does. Think about two climates in our world that changes very little year to year. The desert remains dry, barron and desolate for the most part, the frozen tundra remains, cold, frozen and unlivable for most. Change is necessary for growth. The key to surviving the extreme changes is to hold to the hand of an unchanging Father.

Hebrews 13:8 says: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. The seasons may change but the one who speaks the changes into existence remains the same. Consistently loving and growing us through out all conditions. 2 Timothy 1:7 says: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

With the infilling of the Holy Ghost (Acts chapter 2) comes a power that gives you the ability to overcome (Acts 1:8). We are designed to thrive in the growing season and the season of preperation. God commands us as to how we should react. Philipians 4:11-13 says:

[11] Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [12] I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

He knows our needs and if we are attentitive to his voice we will be well prepared to not only survive but flourish in all seasons of our walk with God.

Worship today like the sun won't shine tomorrow, study the word as though the light will vanish from the sky by morning. Being full of the Holy ghost ensures us the ability to survive the dry spells in our lives.

God bless you.

Pastor Chris Teeples