For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under Heaven. -Ecclesiastes 3:1
There is a specific time appointed for everything that takes place on Earth. That amazes me. God is that big.
Yet God has made everything beautiful for it's own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. -Ecclesiastes 3:11
How amazing is it that God planted eternity in my heart? By the spirit, I know eternity. That is so hard to grasp almost. I have access to eternity....Why am I so carnal!? Can I not see into the eternity I've been given access to because I don't live enough in the spirit?....good question. God has made everything beautiful for it's own time. A flower. It looks beautiful for the time it's been given here on earth. Then it withers and dies. I'll only look beautiful for a time...and soon I'll follow in the footsteps of a flower. I don't really know where I'm going with this. I've just been pondering seasons a lot lately.
I know that God has put people in my life for season. My parents are with me a lifelong season. I have some friends God has given me in that same category, thankfully. I feel like I've had so many people walk in and out of my life, and for a time I didn't understand. When I fully grasped the meaning of these verses...I think I understood better. Although it's not always easy to accept. Why would God put people in our lives, then take them away? I've summed it up to this: Learning lessons. Through most in & outs I've learned lifelong lessons. Things that have helped shape me and sharpen character. I'm very thankful for friends kept and friends lost.
I know that God has put me in certain places for good reasons...er, seasons. Once upon a time...I had a whatever job making whatever money. I was content with where I was. I felt like God was leading me to another place so I followed that direction, just eager for what He had there for me. Boy, was I in for a suprise! It was awful! I happened to be alone everyday in an office so I let worship music play....loudly. I would pray and really seek an answer on why the HECK God had me in this awful place. (I had some pretty intense bosses). I never asked him to give me a way out...just asked why He had me there. Then, I felt completely released to leave this job and go back to my old job. It was the easiest transition in every way possible. God opened some pretty amazing doors! I ended up getting a higher paying job than I had even asked for! I, of course, thanked God for opening doors and closing others and again asked, "Why?"
I'll never know the technicals of what happened in that ONE month that I was gone from my first job but all I know is He made a way. He had me between a rock and hard place for a season but the rewards of my faithfulness to His word were amazingly greater than what I would have ever thought they could be.
I'm not sure if any of this makes sense. I just know that God allows us to be put in uncomfortable positions/seasons for a purpose. There is always something greater at the end of that season. A lesson, a better season, an opportunity...who knows!? I certaintly know that it's been hard sometimes. And super uncomfortable. Sometimes even so unsettling! But God has been teaching me sooo much through every season. The good and the bad. The wet and the dry! He's so awesome. I just love him. Due to love and partial baby hormones, I just shed a few tears.
Anyways, I don't know where this came from...or where I'm going with any of it and I kind of lost my train of thought anyways. Maybe that's good indication that this post is over(: Oh, preggo brain. It brings forgetfulness.
End statement to this very strange blog: I love Jesus and no matter where He has me - and he's had me in some pretty intensely tough places and some intensely great ones - I will always commit my life to his will and his way. I will seek first His Kingdom. I will continue to live a burning lifestyle for my Beloved and not faint. I will take every bump and hole in the road with stride knowing that He will always love me, and continually refine me through the strongest of fires. Human I may be, but burning I remain.
I totally agree with this post. Sometimes you look at people and wonder why they're in your life, and then it becomes obvious. Othertimes, it never becomes obvious, and I just have to trust God has a plan. :)
ReplyDeleteBack to the first part of your post, have you ever read "Driven by Eternity" by John Bevere? If not, I would strongly recommend it. It's a "wow" book that really made me think!