Spring is a season of optimism and rebirth; new beginning of the plants and new life on earth. Springtime represents a new beginning, a new project/event, and a new attitude of life. Age wise it symbolizes "youth".
Summer is a season for pleasure, happiness and relaxation. Summertime is a time of activities and vacations. Age wise is symbolizes early middle-aged.
Fall is a season of maturity and the preparation of a cycle ending. Fall is a time for the trees to bear fruit and a time to harvest what you have sown. Age wise it symbolizes late middle-aged.
Winter is a season of rest. It is a time of empty and barren. Age wise it symbolizes old age.
Everyone goes through seasons in their lives; good and bad times.
When we start a new relationship, or a child is born, or a new job, or buy a new house or car, it is like springtime. We get optimistic and excited with the newness and discovering every new aspect of new events in our lives. This is the season of spring in of our lives.
Then our summer season comes around, the new relationship or new job goes from the excitement of spring into a season of happiness, pleasure and relaxation. The newness of our spring time events; a new baby or new house or new car; becomes a summer season of a happy and pleasurable time, and we start to feel more relaxed and comfortable. This is the summer season of events in our lives.
As our season of fall comes to our lives, we find ourselves being more mature in our relationship, a more dependable co-work, more capable as a parent, accustom to our new house or new car. Fall is also a time that we may find ourselves preparing for the ending of a cycle of our lives, such as: the relationship failing, the job coming to a dead end road, the baby becomes a preschooler, the new house or new car becomes worn with age. Fall season of our lives, just as the leaves fall to the ground from the trees.
Winter season with its winter storms, comes to our lives. This is a time we find ourselves feeling an expression of barren and empty. Our relationship ended, the loss of a job, the baby grows to adulthood and leaves home, the new house is destroyed by a tornado or fire, the new car blows an engine or is totaled in a wreck, this is the winter season of our lives.
As devastated as our winters may be, we must face the fact that we cannot stop the seasons of our lives, just as we cannot stop the four seasons of the earth's cycle. We must continually prepare ourselves before our winters come so that we can handle it and not let it disable us and destroy us.
Spring is the time of renewing and rebirth; accepting Jesus as our Savior, beginning a new life in Him and discarding our old life, being a new baby feeding on the milk of God's Word and learning to crawl as a baby Christian.
Summer is the time of pleasure and happiness, growing as a child of God and in serving Him, and relaxing in the security of knowing you are a child of God. The time we are learning to walk in faith and feeding on the solid food of God's Word.
Fall is our time of maturity, when we start bearing fruit from God, just as the trees bear their fruit in the fall. Fall is for preparing for the end of another cycle/season of our lives as we prepare to enter into our winter season.
Winter season may be a time of barren and empty for our earthly season but it is a time a mature Christian should shine. When we face winter; trials, temptations and problems; we may feel barren and empty but this is the time we should be showing our true faith and loyalty to our Savior, knowing He is going to turn our winter into spring. Spending our winter season in thanksgiving, prayer and praise; resting from trying to solve our problems and let God fix them. How we prepare for and spend our time during the spring, summer and fall will determine how long our winter season will last.
If we spend our spring, summer and fall seasons ignoring God, constantly complaining of the bad in our lives, never happy with what we do have, and not giving thanks for the blessings we have, then get ready for a long hard winter when it comes. Why should He rescue us from a winter storm when we didn't acknowledge Him during the good seasons of our lives?
If we would spend our good seasons preparing for our winters; praying, praising, witnessing, fellowshipping, serving and loving God; then He will be there to rescue us during our winter storms and to shorten the length of our winters.
If we did not have winter seasons then we couldn't have good seasons of spring, summer and fall. If we didn't have bad times then we wouldn't have a clue of what good times are, everything would be stale and the same, day in and day out.
"To everything there is a season and a purpose".
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven:
A time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silent, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
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