The Lord working with them confirming the word with signs following. Mark 16:20
These signs shall follow them that believe ….Mark 16:17 …
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9
What we believe is foundational to our activity. Who we believe also shapes our activities.
Destiny and purpose are two thoughts that I keep engaging with the Holy Spirit. If we consider, as the bible states, ‘times and seasons,’ we understand that to every thing there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heaven, Ecclesiastes. 3:1 KJV.
We understand that a day, with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years is a day, 2 Peter 3:8. As humans, we practice a linear concept of time that revolves around a yesterday, a today, and a tomorrow. In contrast, God exists in the eternal "now."
Given an allowance of time on earth, we are told to redeem the times we are given. Life isn’t only about being active, but being active in the right things, at the right time. At the right time, is a well used scriptural phrase describing a God set time. Galatians highlights a ‘due season’. A due season being an assigned ‘now,’ by God.
We are given one life this side of heaven. This life is to be spent, as I’ve written, seeking and finding God. Growth occurs through our active engagement doing His purpose. We become like Him as we learn Him. So, every opportunity in life is a God opportunity to do just this; seek, learn, and grow with the ultimate goal of expressing to others the very life and nature of our Father.
With the dawning of every new day, we are given opportunities. This isn’t hard to figure out. We get up every day, separating ourselves to His agenda as we go about life with Him. Husband, wife, parent, sibling, relative, friend, employer, employee; wherever we connect with people, there is to be the manifested presence of God through us.
Right words, right actions, right results equal His righteousness displayed. God is glorified in the activities of our day. These relationships come, go, and shift throughout our lifetime, and what we have in one season may be present in another. We must learn to seize the day given.
For over thirty years, Jesus was a faithful son who grew in wisdom and stature, finding favour with God and man; until his ‘kairos’ moment arrived.
This is life, walking supernaturally in a natural realm, seeking and seizing divine opportunities with God. Understanding times and seasons, heightens our awareness of opportunities set before us.
Change is inevitable, yet it always leads us to a greater good in God. With Him, there is always increase ~ from faith to faith, from strength to strength, from glory to glory.
Where there is a declaration of ‘I know in whom I have believed and am persuaded…,’ there is God's activity at work. Where a believing in a due season exists, there is still God activity working in the waiting. Signs follow the believing.