Glimpses of God in Every Season

As my dad and I drove to church this morning, we got to thinking about the different seasons and how they portray our relationship with Him. Winter is when all the leaves are dying and everything is dead and cold. The snow symbolizes Christ's death and how he was a pure sacrifice and as white as snow. He died for us so that we could have new life and live with Him one day in eternity. Spring rolls around and it shows new birth. How Christ gives us new life and changes our hearts just like the flowers springing up and the new animals being born. Summer comes and it makes one think of the deserts in life. Once your faith starts really happening you soon realize that being a Christian doesn't mean your life is fine and dandy. It's hard, it has it's ups and downs, it has it's trials, and has it's deserts. Then, Fall comes and its symbolizes the change that Christ brings to our lives. How He continues to make us different and more like Him at all times during our walk of faith. He uses different situations and people and resources and more to change our hearts. Through all of these seasons though, there are those trees that don't change. The evergreens. Their leaves don't change just like some people's hearts don't. They are not changed by Christ's love or power or mercy or sacrifice. They stay the same. There are a lot of people like that in the world. Are you one? Do you see His beauty all around you? In our chapel service this week for school, the pastor spoke about being renewed each and every day by Christ's holiness. By how much we need Him and how awful we are compared to Him. How set apart He is. Are you renewed each day by that reality? During this season of Fall, is He changing your heart? Who is He making you to be?