Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from Kristyn Getty, written by her husband … By Faith … poignantly singing of what look forward to in faith.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Ecclesiastes 3:1 [NLT] … 1 For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
… God has given us a time for everything in this life and the next.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Solomon, shows us how there is a time for all things in our life … now and into eternity.
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Reference Passage : … Deuteronomy 31:1-3 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… Moses could not go with the people into the promised land, but he spoke of promise for God’s people who would cross over and see God’s promised land, … a picture of what we look forward to in heaven.
Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK ...
… No matter what season we find ourselves, we can trust that God will lead us into the next one. My
Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Dave Branon, makes reference to our view of the seasons to illustrate how we hope for the seasons ahead of us in this and the next life. The ODB author wrote: Today is the first day of spring in the northern half of the world. If you live in Australia, it’s the first day of autumn—the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere and the autumnal equinox in the southern hemisphere. Today, the sun shines directly on the equator, and the hours of daylight and nighttime are nearly equal around the world. New seasons are important for many people. Some count down the day because of what they hope the new season will bring. … We also go through seasons of life that don’t have to do with the weather.
Fellow Christian, … do you have a favorite season of life? My wife’s is the Spring … as we come out of the cold of winter and the flowers bloom, giving us a promise of the warmth ahead in the summer. But, … no matter what season we’re in, isn’t it wonderful that God gives us His hope for a season ahead where we’ll be closer to that eternal season where we’ll be with our Lord in glory?
Solomon wrote of there being a time for everything in our lives (see the highlight passage). Yes, even in the harsh, cold times of winter, he showed us that our God gives us hope of the blooming in spring and the warmth of summer ahead.
Where are you now? … But an even more hopeful question is, where are you headed? Because no matter what season holds our present, there is a season of promise which lies ahead for us to move forward in faith (hear the linked song).
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for giving us the seasons to mark our lives.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … I look ahead, coming out of winter and into the Spring, looking ahead to the eternal warmth of eternal summer.… Amen
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