PERSPECTIVE Don Atkin

SEASONS AND THEIR PURPOSE

 There are seasons for living the outward life. 

There are seasons for living the inward life. 

Be faithful to stay in the season that you are in, until the season changes you. 

Be sure to allow the season to change you before your season changes. 

Be faithful to move with the change when seasons change. 

The inward seasons prepare us for the outward seasons. 

The outward seasons reveal the fruit of the inward seasons. 

Both the outward and inward seasons are necessary for sons of God to be revealed. 

It is necessary for sons of God to be revealed that the will of God may be fulfilled. 

There are childish moments and senior moments. 

In between is all about putting away childish things. 

Putting away childish things eventually produces childlike faith. 

To everything there is a season. 

Often, both are going on at the same time. 

This teaches us Contextualization. 

This produces in us Integrity. 

Such is life.