Fall is my favorite time of the year, as it ushers in my birthday and my favorite holiday, Christmas, and the smells, sounds, weather, food, etc.
For a while now, my sister and I have been having very interesting conversations regarding the changing of the seasons and what should have been happening, but wasn’t. And that hasn’t just been now – the seasons seem to have been having a hard time letting go of their appointed times and understanding that their time is up. Even now, where we live, Summer has not wanted to let Fall enter. A week ago, though, Fall pretty much announced that Summer did not have a choice and crashed in, sending temperatures plummeting nearly 50 degrees in one day. This is a true analogy for what has been happening spiritually.
From the beginning of the year, Winter went on longer than expected and infringed on Spring’s time. The same thing happened when it was time for Summer and Spring’s temperatures kept infiltrating Summer. As we watched this happen, we were experiencing a very long and hard winter in our own lives.
It started from the end of 2018 and just continued. Every time we thought things were changing, the rough times just kept going. It wasn’t necessarily that new drama was happening, but it was the same old drama that didn’t want to let go regardless of what we did, said or prayed. We kept feeling like God was speaking clearly about us going through a time of transition all the way back in June, yet there was no manifestation of that in the natural realm.
It is extremely difficult to walk out a transition when you know that one season is over and a better season is here, but you are only experiencing it spiritually. As days turned into weeks and weeks into months, we started making strides in new areas because we felt God leading us to do so (it was supposed to be part of our new season). We just knew that no matter what, we had to hang in there because if nothing else, for sure, Rosh Hashanah (the New Year) was going to usher in a new beginning.
Guess what? Rosh Hashanah came, we celebrated it and God showed up in a mighty way, but things were still the same in the natural. I could feel frustration kicking in because, all of a sudden, I started feeling Christmasey in September to the point that I started watching Christmas movies; I felt like I had transitioned to the new season and that things had changed for the better…And yet, the old season was still hanging on.
But was it really?!
We were still experiencing summer temperatures way into Fall and then all of a sudden, it’s like Fall got upset and the temperatures dropped from 94 degrees to 48 in one shot. The old season that we were in started to lose its grip on the new season. The old things that would ordinarily sideline us in the old season could only go so far and no further. We started to see God open doors and miraculous things happen. Not to the extent we thought we would see…in fact, you could almost miss it if you weren’t paying attention. But just as Summer was losing its hold on Fall, our old season was losing its grip on our new season. Slowly but surely, the new was beginning to take over.
If God has spoken to you about entering into a new season, don’t get discouraged if it appears like it hasn’t happened yet! It is only a matter of time before that new season crashes into the old and takes over completely. All it requires is for you to hold on, don’t lose hope, take one day at a time and remember, no season lasts forever!! Declare to the old season, “Your time is over and my new season is here…let my new season go!!!”
Ecclesiastes 3 New International Version (NIV) A Time for Everything 3 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace…
