What season of life are you in? Are you in a season of joy, happiness, and things going well? Are you in a season of sadness, pain, and hurt? Are you going through dry time, a time when your faith is running low, a time of feeling lost and alone? Are you asking God to intervene?
We go through different seasons in life. Those seasons can last for a few days or a few months. We can quickly find ourselves stepping out of one season and into a different one. Our personal seasons can change as quickly as the weather. But that doesn’t mean God abandons us.
The prophet Ezekiel learned this lesson. God had been and always would be with his people. He had not forgotten them. To make his point, he led the prophet to a valley full of dry bones. The prophet could see there was no life in the valley. Yet it was not beyond God’s ability to bring life to it. Though the people of Israel may have thought God had abandoned him, he had not.
When we go through dry seasons, we may think God has abandoned us. God never abandons us, even if he does not always put us in situations full of unicorns and rainbows. There are lessons we can learn as we find our way through difficult situations, not the least of which is learning to trust God. It is often in a dry season that we learn to cling tighter to God than we have before. It is also when we see God act on our behalf and pull us through them.
I pray we all know that God does not abandon us. I pray we trust that God is always with us. I pray each one of us cling tighter to God during dry season and see his act on our behalf. Know that God will not abandon you. Trust God is always with you. Cling to God. See God pull you through.
Ezekiel 37:1-2 The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry.
Marty Pressey 