The word "season" is interesting because it has so many uses in our language, and a very important presence in God's Word. We talk about the seasons of the year, which elicits many images of weather change, the cycle of planting, tending and harvesting crops, seasoning of those harvested crops to bring forth their flavor and nutritional value, and then the season when the ground is fallow and unproductive. We use the word season to denote periods of our life where we learn a profession, pursue that profession and retire from that profession after our interest or physical ability wanes or our employer can no longer use our services. Relationships have seasons lasting from a moment to years, to decades to a lifetime, and scripture calls for us to be ready to reprove, rebuke and exhort in season and out of season what and why we believe what we do. We are to be salt (a seasoning) and light by what we say and how we act so that others may know Jesus Christ through us.
We never want to wish our time away, but there are times in life when we wish a season would end so another can begin or when we wish a season could continue when it is obvious that it has run its course. We need to realize and accept the reality that time is not in our control and that the seasons, whatever they may be, are in God's plan and not ours to regulate or direct.
Above all we need to be obedient to the call on our time and our talents, be obedient to the call on our resources and the One who provides them to us and in every way give back to God what He has given us that others may know Who He Is and Who we serve and honor.
> Many will not know what the next sentence means, but to those who do, they will understand the season we have have been through the past few months here at TGPP. Go with God, Alena, and thank you for the season Karen and I and so many others had with you here in Arkansas. You have been a blessing to many and a true servant. We will see you again
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