Wrong season

Hi how are you all today? I am well and have had a busy week. My birthday was Friday so had a good day. How was your week?

This week I want to blog about the wrong season. Seasons appear a few times in the Bible but I want to look at how doing the right thing in the wrong season can still not work out.

My husband planted our pumpkin vine a while ago and we harvested a few pumpkins off it which was good. We generally cut it up into pieces and then freeze them in portion sizes. They are still suitable for mashing and roasting.

In my country at present, it is meant to be winter. When I look at my vine, it still has flowers on it and I get excited to see little pumpkins underneath. But a few days later when I check them, they have died off. Why? It is the wrong season and it is so disappointing.

When we look for fruit in the wrong season in our lives, we will be disappointed. I have blogged on this before.

In Ecclesiastes 3:1 in the Message Bible, it states:

3 There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:

An opportune time in other translations is season. This verse tells me there is a right time. If there is a right time; there is also a wrong time.

Sometimes our disappointments come when we are looking for things in the wrong season. God might have given you an amazing promise and you are waiting for it to come to pass. Every day you wait and every day there is more disappointment, because there is no fulfilment. My question is; what is God doing in the time between us being given the promise and reaping the results of that promise.

Generally, there are a couple of things. The first is character building. If we don’t allow God to deal with the things on the inside of us; we may never be able to handle the promised answer. This can happen when we receive the promise in the wrong season.

In Luke 10:10 in the Message Bible, it states:

¹⁰ Jesus went on to make these comments:

If you’re honest in small things,
    you’ll be honest in big things;

This is character building. We need to allow God to shape our character in the little things sowe can handle the bigger things He wants to give us.

Jesus was tested in the wilderness before He was entrusted the cross.

The second thing God works on is our pride. God will not share His glory with us or anyone or anything else. We need to be humble and realise that everything we have and receive comes from God.

God, through Moses told the Israelites this very thing as they were entering the Promised Land.

Deuteronomy 8:11-16 in part, in the Message Bible states:

^11-16 Make sure you don’t forget God, your God, by not keeping his commandments, his rules and regulations that I command you today. Make sure that when you eat and are satisfied, build pleasant houses and settle in, see your herds and flocks flourish and more and more money come in, watch your standard of living going up and up—make sure you don’t become so full of yourself and your things that you forget God, your God.

We can forget God and become prideful when the promise comes to pass and we receive the good things from God. But God won’t allow it to happen if we still have pride in our hearts.

So today, discern what season you are in. If God is working in your life, let Him. Don’t look for the promise to come to pass in a wrong season. For if we do, then it will cause us trouble.

Proverbs 13:11 in the Message Bible states:

¹¹ Easy come, easy go,
    but steady diligence pays off.

If we receive the promise in the wrong season, it will disappear but in the right season we will reap the reward.

If you are feeling disappointed and disheartened because your prayer has not been answered then keep praying but also seek God to see if He wants to do some work in your life. I know this has happened to me.

Be encouraged that God knows best and is not withholding from you but developing patience and other things in you.

Bless you heaps and keep living the life God intended.

Karen