“To everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV
This part of scripture is not talking to us about a basic knowledge of times and seasons only. It tells us the divine ordination of times and seasons. If you were sowing during the season of harvest, you would have missed the timing for you to get your harvest. (Eccl. 3:2)
Times and seasons are controlled by God. Not many people know this. It takes His wisdom to understand it. The scripture tells us that the sons of Issachar knew what to do because they understood the times (1 Chr. 12:32). The key to knowing what to do per time is an understanding of the times and seasons.
If you feel you have been in one spot for too long, it may be because you have invested your energy into something not meant for that time. Ask God what season of your life you’re in so you will not miss it.
Have you ever found it strange that Jesus did not start His earthly ministry until thirty? He became an adult officially at twenty and could have decided to fully start His ministry then. He already had an understanding of His purpose at the age of twelve, it makes sense for Him to have started then (Lk. 21:41-49). But He didn’t because He also understood times and seasons.
The time for Him to reach out to people was not until the age of thirty (Jn. 2:4; Lk.3:23). All the years before then were His time for preparation.
There are so many half-baked ministers and ministries today because such people went before their season. If you go out during your season of preparation, you will be underprepared for what you will meet. And if you still wait in preparation for the season when you should be reaching out, you will miss some of the people God wanted you to meet.
An understanding of times and seasons also gives hope that no condition, as they say, is permanent. The scripture says though your sorrow may last for the night, joy comes in the morning (Ps. 30:5b). (Your morning has come in in Jesus’ name). Even those sad, teary nights will not last forever. Their time of passing will come (Rev.21:4). Or perhaps you have been at war –in your mind or literally –for so long, the bible tells us that there is also a time of peace coming (Ecc. 3:8).
And when these good seasons come, we can insist on them in prayer. Through Christ’s victory, we can also claim victory over every unwanted thing –sickness, weakness, failure, sorrow, stagnation, etc.
Some people will tell you to embrace your seasons, even if the season seems somewhat contrary to what you want. Sometimes, this can be helpful to make us more content and better understand what God is doing.
But again, in Ecclesiastes 3: 5 we are told there is a time to refrain from embracing. There is a time to insist on that which you desire (per God’s will). Jacob did it (Gen. 32:26). Jabez did it (1 Chr. 4:10). The man born blind did it (Lk. 18:38-41). What is important is understanding whether God still wants you to continue on that path for a greater cause or it is time for you to cry out.
The only way to understand times and seasons is to ask from the One who created it. Ask God what to do per time. After Jesus died, Peter seemed to have lost hope and went back to fishing. It was still as futile as it was for him when Jesus first met him. He had forgotten that his season of being a fisherman had passed. He was now in the season of being a fisher of men. It was not until Jesus appeared to him, to remind him of the season of his life he was in, that he got it right again. (Jn. 21:1-19)
Understand your season. Understand your time. That way, you will know what to do per time.
“He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time.”
Ecclesiastes 3:11a AMP
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