Fall smells, seasonal items…

 Fall smells, seasonal items…

Pumpkin spice, spiced apples, crisp apple, gingerbread, candy cane, Meyer lemon….kitchen smells?…no, candle scents wafting through the air near the checkout counter, reminding all of the fall smells…

Another aisle is concentrated on fall baking with supplies for pies, cookies, breads…pans for roasting the meats of the season…

Yet, another season sports a variety of items for Easter baking, or summer canning, Christmas decorations or Halloween candy…seasonal foods, seasonal activities…sometimes we tend to think in seasons of life, of the year…

Ecclesiastes speaks of seasons…

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 

a time to be born, and a time to die; 

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

 a time to kill, and a time to heal; 

a time to break down, and a time to build up; 

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; 

a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; 

a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 

a time to seek, and a time to lose; 

a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 

a time to tear, and a time to sew; 

a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 

a time to love, and a time to hate; 

a time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 

I realized that sometimes I tend to think of Jesus’ work in my life as in the past, seasonally…I was saved…past tense…seasonal…but, no…He is presently working, presently interceding, presently transforming….He is not seasonal….He is in the now all the time as well as preparing and working in the future…

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 1:8 

13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

Revelation 22:13 

We have the in dwelling Holy Spirit …who never leaves, forsakes…who teaches, leads, convicts all, all, all, all the time…we can’t go anywhere that he isn’t there…we can’t think anything that he doesn’t know…

What a wonder that is…God for all seasons, all times…all the time…

Thank YOU….

You know when I sit down and when I rise up; 

you discern my thoughts from afar. 

You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 

Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. 

You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.

Psalm 139:2-6

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! 

How vast is the sum of them! 

If I would count them, they are more than the sand. 

I awake, and I am still with you. 

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Psalm 139:15,17-18,23-24