3 - Accepting the Seasons We're In

Just like our calendar year, our lives have seasons. Many times we want to hurry them along or make them last forever, but every season that we find ourselves in has it’s purpose. If you’re anything like me, I want to be enjoying that harvest time, all the time, but we know just by observing the world around us that this is just not realistic. It’s so easy to get frustrated because our seasons that are planting, or pruning, or waiting, are a lot longer than we would like them to be. But just like the trees, or the land, we go through cycles and each one must precede the next in order for the process to be complete. Where are we in our season? We can ask the question, “ how can I cooperate with what you want to do in my life while I am here, Lord?” We have to trust in each part and purpose that this season holds. The breakthrough is such a small part in all the growing process, but of this we can be sure, just because we can’t see what is happening doesn’t mean nothing is. In Galatians 6:9 it says, “Let us not grow weary in doing good. For in due season we will reap, if we do not give up!” Don’t give up! No matter how hard this season is, don’t give up. In my life, being a mom of little babies, was one of those seasons that many times felt like a time that moved as slow as molasses. My days were filled with wiping bodily fluids or fixing another meal. I had dreams and desires to write something, create something, pursue this “call” I felt on my life but I found myself frustrated. I hadn’t gotten the call wrong, it just wasn’t the season yet. My children were a part of my learning season, what God was teaching me doing the dishes and giving baths in the every day mundane was teaching me things I could learn no other way, teaching me what selflessness really means to serve someone over and over again out of love alone. Maybe the wait is long because there is much fruit He wants to bring from your life? He is preparing us to be able to sustain in character what He wants to produce through us. Will we wait on His timing? We want to be people who are so rooted in Christ, so committed to the way He does things, that our fruit remains continuous for years to come. What season are you in? SHOW NOTES https://www.ashleymorganjackson.com/podcast/2019/9/5/podcast-ep3-accepting-the-seasons-that-were-in CALLED TO BUILD FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/calledtobuildcommunity/ CALLED TO BUILD INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/calledtobuild/ FREE "WHAT AM I CALLED TO?" WORKBOOK: https://www.ashleymorganjackson.com/called Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/called-to-build/donations