For all seasons

This morning, as I walked through a heavily wooded area near my home I was considering the multi-colored leaves...over half the spectrum was showing there (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green...I didn't see any Blue, Indigo or Violet). 

 

Fall is a time of reflection, before the severe cold of winter makes anything other than survival hard to consider.  The thought I had this morning was that we have a God for all seasons.  When life is difficult and problems crowd in, who else better to turn to than God?  He has the comfort and the answers, and is able to provide the solutions.  When the solutions don't come when we expect and we must deal with pain, who else better to turn to than God?  He invites us to cast our care on Him and no one can empathize better than He.  He's the one who knows the innermost aspects of our pain and can heal the invisible human heart as well as the physical heart.  When uncertainty and the unknowns of the future cause anxiety, who better to turn to than God?  He knows the beginning from the end and can guide us in the right path if we allow Him to direct our steps.  And when we experience joy and success and life goes well, who better to turn to than God?  Who else deserves our praise and who else can deliver us from the pride than can extinguish the blessing so quickly.  Truly He is the only God for all the seasons of life.

 

Acts 14:17 "Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy."

 

blessings,

Rob Smith