SEASONS…

Like the frost on a rose
Winter comes for us all
Oh how nature acquaints us
With the nature of patience
Like a seed in the snow
I’ve been buried to grow
For Your promise is loyal
From seed to sequoia

I know
Though the winter is long, Even richer
The harvest it brings
Though my waiting prolongs, Even greater
Your promise for me like a seed
I believe that my season will come

Lord I think of Your love
Like the low winter sun
And as I gaze I am blinded
In the light of Your brightness
And like a fire to the snow
I’m renewed in Your warmth
Melt the ice of this wild soul
Till the barren is beautiful

I can see the promise
I can see the future
You’re the God of seasons
And I’m just in the winter
If all I know of harvest
Is that it’s worth my patience
Then if You’re not done working
God I’m not done waiting
You can see my promise
Even in the winter
Cause You’re the God of greatness
Even in a manger
For all I know of seasons
Is that You take Your time
You could have saved us in a second
Instead You sent a child

~ Seasons by Hillsong

You might wonder why I went through the futile exercise of copying the lyrics of this song into this blog post. The simple answer is that I really want you to soak in what these lyrics are saying. I would even recommend that you listen along to the actual song.

This song got me through a really tough season in my life when the doctors told me that my baby would never take his first breath. The sentences bolded are the sentences that God spoke to me through this song.

“Winter comes for us all

“I’m a seed that has been buried to grow

“Though the winter is long, the harvest it brings is RICH. Though my waiting prolongs, your promise to me is LOYAL

“The barren will be beautiful

“I’m just in the winter

“If you’re not done working, then I’m not done waiting

I know it’s the beginning of 2021 and we want to declare great things about the year but the reality is that we are all in different seasons in our lives. Seasons that are not usually governed by what month we’re in. When we lost Ezra, I wanted to RUN into my next season and leave this one behind. But God challenged me to sit in it. To sit in it does not mean to sulk in it. And sitting with God is very different from sitting alone.

Your toughest seasons hold your greatest lessons.