Seasons Change, God is Constant!

      I love fall. Crisp air, blowing brightly colored leaves in swirls of vivid and vibrant hues! God was so kind to provide us with a variety of seasons.

Some people, who call Wyoming home, doubt that distinct seasons are ever really noticeable!

Summer bows quickly to winter winds and snow. Fall is skipped over, like the last kid to be selected for dodge ball!

Yet it is fall now, it is fall today, and I am smiling!

As Seasons change, moving from one expression to another, it reminds me that time is never stagnant. Time flows like a river, and events, faces, laughter, tears from the life we are given March from our memory banks into conscience thought , for us to ponder, to enjoy…for a season.

Memory is such a wonderful gift of God. Memories allows us to have Roses in the winter….to bring back past joy, former experiences are recalled and we all can smile.

Painful memories of course are filed away. They often try to press their way into current thought, they push, they pry, they want to occupy our thinking, and when they do, smiles give way to regret.

What’s to be done?

Like seasons that change sometimes imperceptibly, we need to remember that God is with us. He walks with us through change, through life’s alterations and we can embrace the new season, we can choose to dwell on His promises or allow negative and damaging thoughts to dominate!

Seasons come, and quickly make their departure….but God is constant!

Seasons change, He doesn’t!

The Apostle Paul wrote:

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. 16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained. (Philippians 3: 12-16).

Did you catch it? Paul says "Mature people think a certain way" what way you wonder?  The way of hope, and trust that the God who has walked with you through the seasons of life will continue to make away for us...we belong to Him after all...and our future is bright!

Listen to one of my favorite pianists Kevin Kern, as you do celebrate the Seasons of your life, and the assurance that the Lord is with you...always!

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