Life 101: The Seasons

To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NKJV)

King Solomon was a very wise man. His wisdom came as a gift from God that he may govern the people of Israel justly. He was also street smart, gaining this knowledge from trial and error! After having everything he wanted and doing everything he wanted to do he finally concluded that the only thing that really matters in life is to “Fear God and keep His commandments.”

His introduction to his testimony of experiencing Life 101 gives us insight and foreknowledge of what we can expect in what some may consider a mundane life while yet others seem to be having the time of their lives. It all depends on what season you are in. Not the earthly seasons but our personal times of life. Age can be a factor as we grow older. It seems the older I get the more I begin to appreciate things I used to take for granted!

These seasons that the Bible talks about here, I believe, are the times in our life that we experience all the things Solomon lists in verses two through eight. He starts with being born and ends with peace! All the other stuff in between is what life consists of. The lesson I get from this passage is that whatever I may be going through right now, it is just a season. I have had seasons of sorrow and of happiness, just as Solomon wrote about. I have also learned, as Solomon did, that God is the key to peace in all the seasons! Solomon found out the hard way that peace can only come from God; trying to find it in anything else is vanity; a waste of time.

Jesus is not called the Prince of Peace for nothing! So whatever season you are in right now, enjoyable or not so enjoyable, let Christ bring peace into it.