Human life is full of ups and downs. As a Christian, walking with God does not mean the disappearance of all our worries, but a promise that God walks with us through all seasons.
There is a season for everything, a season for everything under heaven:a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build; a time to cry, and a time to laugh; a time to lament, and a time to dance; a time for throwing stones, and a time for picking up stones; a time to embrace, and a time to turn away from embraces;a time to seek, and a time to waste; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Having had this subject at heart for quite some time, I felt compelled to make a YouTube video about it. Here are the points that I address, based on the various teachings that I have received and my personal experience:
The Season of Trial
Moment of sanctification
Usually painful/Difficult to accept -> Image of gold purified in fire
Pain drives us to cling to God
Opportunity to apply what we learned during the season when everything was going well
God gives or takes away
Announcement of a change, of an evolution
The Spiritual Desert Season
Feeling far from God
Absence of joy, presence of doubts and questions
Dissonance between our feelings and God's promises/our intellectual knowledge of the Gospel
Feeling of being misunderstood/fighting a lonely battle
Feeling like you're not receiving/not being edified
Very often due to an unconfessed sin, to something we don't want to let go of
Sometimes for no particular reason other than testing our faith (Job example)
The breakthrough
After very low moments
Renewed understanding of our state and the person of God
Return of joy and peace: harmony between our feelings and our knowledge
Zeal and thirst renewed
The season when everything goes well/the routine
Season of calm and peace
No particularly intense test
Good routine of meditation on the Word and prayer
Risk of falling into monotony
“So then, let him who thinks he is standing take care lest he fall! » 1 Cor 10.12
Need to maintain passion for the things of the Lord: hymns, fraternal communion...
Each season is experienced in a particular way by everyone. What is certain is that in ALL seasons, we still need God and cling to Him because He says: I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me and in whom I abide bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing.” John 15:5
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