The WHO of each season

Yesterday, I shared about knowing the WHO of the seasons we are in rather than being fixed on the WHY of each season.

"A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up."

Ecclesiastes 3:3

Not all seasons are life seasons!

This might make you uncomfortable, but not all seasons are life seasons. We are usually praying for good health, success, and growth. These are all excellent things to aim for and pray for, but there are seasons when there is destruction and removal. We usually feel like we just have to endure them or that they are to ‘build character’ (which may be true), but the challenge is the word PURPOSE.

If it means ‘desire,’ then does God have a desire to remove or kill things in our lives? Why would he remove something that maybe He even planted? What would be the purpose of that? Well, it is also understood that there are seasons of healing and construction or rebuilding. Not all things planted are forever! We think that because God planted or started something, it must be permanent, but even life itself isn’t permanent. It only has an appointed time.

The word heal is RAPHA—again, it is WHO He is (His character), not just describing what he does! The season of healing, planting, or rebuilding can’t happen when there are other things in the way! How can you receive healing if you don’t kill the bacteria and infection that made you sick? How can you plant in a crowded, overgrown garden? How can there be space to build if it is occupied by something else?

We might not know his desire or purpose at all! But we can't pray and ask for the new things to be planted or the healing restoration if we won't surrender to the process of removal or killing.

Can we still trust this season’s process without fully understanding the WHY?