We can sometimes become locked into a season forgetting that seasons do change.  We’ve all been through seasons, and as long as we keep living there will be more seasons to come.

 

Every season has an expiration date. The bible says, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens” (Ecclesiastes 3:1).  The part about this scripture that we have to pay attention to is, “There is a time for everything.”

 

We go through it for a season, we hurt for a season, we fly high for a season but when we attach our joy to the season as opposed to the truth, joy becomes an elevator ride — sometimes up and sometimes down.  In other words, when our joy is defined by the season, joy becomes happiness.

 

Happiness is predicated upon what’s happening, joy is regardless of what’s happening.  Seasons don’t define us, they tell us what time it is — time to grow, time to shift, time to mature, time to rest, time to regroup, time to reposition, time to get closer to God. When joy is based on the truth, we get better at understanding our seasons.

 

Everybody who comes into our life is not meant for a lifetime.  When we confuse a season with a lifetime, emotions tend to do overtime in our seasons.  Some relationships have an expiration date.  As you grow, you will grow out of some people, you will grow out of accepting less than you deserve, you will grow out of trying to force yourself to fit in with wrong people, you will grow out of talking to turtles about giraffe visions, and you will grow out of trying to make an emotional meal out of emotional crumbs.

 

Seasons come for a reason. They come to teach and then they expire at the appointed time.  Some dreams have an expiration date —  they come, they inspire, they open our mind to a new world of possibilities, a new level of confidence and then they get replaced by new dreams.

 

Seasons of lack, loneliness, chaos and even depression have a time limit. Put this in your spirit: “For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning” (Psalm 30:5).  Nighttime is a season of doubt,  fear or despair but joy comes when we get the courage to let the light of truth outshine what we see.

 

In every season you are blessed, you are in God’s hands and if you watch, walk and work in faith, every season will produce a harvest.  Speak life over your season, embrace it, grow through it and remember that a season comes when a season is necessary.

 

Share and be blessed.

 

 

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