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| You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Psalm 16:11 |
There are four seasons in nature winter, spring summer and autumn (this one’s my favorite!) and infinitely more in life, it seems that most of the time we (or maybe just me) are looking ahead to the next one instead of finding the joy in the one we’re in. I love the beginning of Ecclesiastes 3 ‘To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time pluck what is planted, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to gain and a time to lose, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to sew, a time to keep silence and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time of war and a time of peace. (Eccl 3:1-8) I feel we have been conditioned to constantly look ahead to plan the future, it seems contentment is never in the here and now but rather in the future that is almost within our grasp or in the past that has somehow slipped through our fingers.
Yet I am reminded that I was not created for the past nor the future but for right now. With my eyes trained on joy that I will ‘surely’ find in the future I am missing what God has for me now, the same goes for eyes that are fixed on the past. ( I am reminded of what happened to Lot’s wife) “I will delight myself in the Lord, and He will give me the desires of my heart, I will commit my way to the Lord and trust always in Him” (Psalm 37:4-5) I am in a season of preparation, of waiting. I don’t know what my God has in store for me but I have found joy in the waiting! Psalm 130:5 “I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in His word do I hope.”
