A New Season by Lane Jordan Burday

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease (Genesis 8:22).

I just love Autumn! The crisp, cool air; the gorgeous colors that speak to you from the trees; walks and the crunch of leaves under your feet; and a blue sky that can almost hurt your eyes!

God wants to bless us every day with His creation and its beauty. But we still complain, don’t we?

I live in Texas, and we had high heat (90s) into mid-October! We all complained and fussed, saying, “When will it get cooler?”

Well, it did! In one day, a cold front came through, and the temperature dropped from the 90s to the 60s!!!

And yes, we all started complaining and fussing again!

The Bible strongly warns against complaining and grumbling, viewing it as a sign of distrust in God and rebellion against His Provision. In Exodus, God disciplined the Israelites for complaining about their food; in Philippians 2:14, we are told, “Do all things without grumbling or disputing,” and in 1 Thessalonians 5:18, “Give thanks in all circumstances.”

Which makes me feel so convicted! God makes the seasons on earth so that we can have food and plenty of water. We need rain, snow, cold weather, and the hot sun. And God is always at work creating for us:

“For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19 NLT).

I love the fact that God is always working for us, creating and giving us new seasons, new ideas, new people to minister to, and new life when we welcome a baby into the world.

When we remember this, then we are like the person Psalm 1:3 refers to:

“That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season whose leaf does not wither.”

Let’s remember to praise and thank God for all the seasons of our lives. These seasons help us grow and keep us needing God for His strength and comfort, especially when a season is hard to get through.

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