Thinking about Seasons

Thinking about seasons, and I have my reasons.

Spring with all its birds and buds and bugs only hides the fallen trees, dead foliage, and dilapidated buildings.

Spring hides dead and dying things, makes fall and summer and winter not bad. But that has been had.

Spring's greens only make the rest more obvious.

So spring illuminates--highlights--the inevitable winter.

This applies not only to seasons we see, this applies to you and to me.

We are aging, moving through the seasons of our lives.

Spring of youth, summer of maturing, fall of maturity, winter of the years, pass and passing bring us to these:

"Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:16-18; NAS).

"Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory" (Colossians 3:1-4; NAS).

"Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure" (1 John 3:2-3; NAS).