Seasons of a Masterpiece

God is active in the Dark -Jason Upton
Some seasons do not make sense until another season arrives or is completed.

It's easy to devalue or degrade the less appealing or the harder seasons in life, and sometimes we can even write them off as countless, but that it not our Father--He is always purposeful and good in our lives. He is also calling us to walk beyond, into the invisible, in those seasons, because there's something greater at work; there's someone greater at work.

We may not understand one season of life until another comes, and in those places our faith will lead us into understanding; further, one season of life may not make sense until the beginning or completion of another. God is the God of generations, and He participates with us in every aspect of our life, and He's also a builder who is constructing a masterpiece with our whole lives--some of us, lie our fathers of the faith, may not see this masterpiece come to fruition in our life, but in the life of a generation, or many generations after us, but each season has it's value to completing the masterpiece, for He is faithful to complete what He has started (Phil 1:6).

Some of us, like Abraham, will not see the Promised Land, but our lives are the bridge other generations will cross into it.


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