Don’t Give Up!

“He changes times and seasons;

    he deposes kings and raises up others.

He gives wisdom to the wise

    and knowledge to the discerning.”

Daniel 2:21

 

 

Around Western New York we are in that long season of winter where temperatures are bone chilling and expressed in terms of a ‘wind chill’ factored in.

Snowfall is expressed in inches if it’s a good day and feet if it is not!

You hear and see a lot of people cheering on the arrival of spring with countdown calendars and pictures of flowers and others such things as a way of not losing hope!

So to it can be with the seasons of our lives in our journey with God.

We are so ready for one season to end and another to begin.

But God does not release us into the new season until the current season has completed its’ work in us.

While we are so very anxious to move on, He is patiently completing His maturing work in us that He has created the season for.

Persevere through the season He has you in with Him.

Don’t prematurely abandon what He is accomplishing.

If our seasons in God could be measured in the same way the four seasons are marked on a calendar I wonder what it might reveal.

How many times we have missed all there was for us in that season because we quit too early.

Don’t give up.

Don’t give in.

If you must surrender let it be to God alone.

Let the season God has you in refine you in the ways He has meant it to.

Ask others you respect and look up to, to pray that you persevere.

You may just discover they have some sound wisdom having gone through similar seasons themselves.

Ask God for strength in the moments of struggle.

He wants you to receive all He has for you.