Seasons of Life

Where are you in this stage of your life? Young either married or not? Middle age? Getting on in years? I am the latter and while I have been through all thee stages prior to that which I am in now, I hadn't ever given much thought to this stage. I guess because maybe I never thought I would get here. Maybe I was too busy for a number of years raising my kids. Maybe later even as I was approaching retirement I didn't take the time to think about it then either because, by that time, I was working a full-time job and many hours overtime.

Truly, never did it dawn on me that getting here would be an entirely different experience. And with that came different challenges then I had ever known, of course. And like those challenges that I had not been prepared for as my life went from one stage to another, I was not really prepared for my more current ones either.

The real difference though has been that now I have had more time to reflect on the goodness of God. Have I always taken advantage of it? To be honest, I have to say "no." But God always has a way to get our attention and if that means taking us through some dark alleys of life, than that he will do. 

Does he really want to do that? No. But he promises that he has plans for us. Not to harm us but to prosper us. To give us a hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11.

The thing is, he wants us to seek him with all our hearts and then when we do he will hear us.

And the problem is, we don't seek him. Neither with all our hearts and sometimes not at all. And we have the nerve to get mad that he isn't there for us. 

And yet because he loves us, he promises also never to leave or forsake us. Deuteronomy 31:6

If you are not to the last season of your life on earth. Think ahead and realize that that time will come and the more you prepare for it now, be it on how you will live at that time but also spiritually,  and it is better to be ready for it. At least as much as you possibly can.

For those that are there now, as I am, remember this from Isahia 46:4. Even to your old age and gray hairs, I am he, I am he that sustains you.I have made you and I will carry you. I will sustain you and I will rescue you. 

 I sure have found this to be true in my life. He has carried me through all of my life. All through where I have been. Good or bad. And at last in my older age, I have learned that indeed he has sustained and rescued me. In every season. At every age. 

How thankful I am for a God that loves me that much. Because as much as other people love me, they can't love me as God does. And he loves you that much as well!

May 1, 2019 Promise: I have heard your prayers and seen your tears.I will heal you. 2 Kings 20:5

Thanks for coming by Friends. Have a blessed day and a happy new week!