"Transitions" Teaching Series - Starts this Sunday

God never changes – but seasons do. Winter, Spring, Summer or Autumn; all of them are necessary for the earth’s ecological system. My favourite time of year is Spring. However if it were Spring all the time there would be some serious issues that would affect the planet.

Likewise, in your walk with God, you will go through various seasons and transitions as well .

"Be ready in season and out of season." 2 Tim 4:2 NKJV

We live our lives in seasons, and seasons have beginnings and endings. So, diversity is the key to longevity. If you don't understand this, you can lose your sense of purpose, because when one season is over you've nothing left to carry with you into the next.

That's why successful farmers keep rotating their crops. They plant corn in one field, then when it goes out of season they plough that field and let it rest. At the same time they're busy elsewhere harvesting alfalfa to make hay, after which that field goes through the same process. In spring they change the order of things so the field where corn once grew now produces alfalfa, and so forth.

When Paul told Timothy, "Be ready in season and out of season," he was encouraging him to broaden his spiritual horizons. In Timothy's case he needed to understand there's a time to correct people, and a time to comfort them (See 2 Tim 4:2 NKJV). Timing is so important. The Psalmist compared the blessed man to "a tree...which yields...fruit in season" (Ps 1:3 NIV). To succeed, you must recognise what season you are in!

And you must also understand that God is more concerned with the depth of your roots than the height of your branches; more interested in quality than quantity. With God 'the quality goes in before the name goes on'.

That's why He takes your struggles and uses them to cultivate the kind of soil (and soul) necessary to produce good fruit. And one more thing: from time to time He will permit storms to blow away those people and things that hinder what He's working to produce in you.

- be willing to transition into your new season...
- make up your mind to enter your new season ...
- let go of the old to embrace the new...
- expect the best from your transitions!