In Every Season

I was listening to "Desert Song" tonight.  It's amazing to me how I can sing a song so many times and yet, new things will strike me or a deeper meaning will come out of it depending upon my current situation in life.

Life is full of seasons.  I've come to realize while I've been here at college that the seasons are something I value highly.  The changes signal new and different things and also trigger memories.  

• Fall means changing trees, cooler weather, and in my current season of life, a new start as school begins again.  
• Winter brings Christmas time and a long school break, family time and certain sights and smells that don't grace any other time of year. 
• Spring comes right when it is desperately needed, and it relieves Winter's chill and brings some life and color back into our world. It refreshes the soul and puts new life on display everywhere.  
• Summer brings a much needed break from school, heat and near constant sunshine and for the past few summers, serving opportunities I couldn't partake in any other season in the year.

The bridge in Desert Song goes like this:

"All of my life, in every season, You are still God, I have a reason to sing, I have a reason to worship."

Seasons in life bring ups and downs, new experiences and new memories, fresh starts and ends of the roads.  I cannot predict what tomorrow holds for me. I cannot predict what the rest of this "season" will look like or what the next will bring.  But I can know this thing: that God is sovereign and God is good. 

THEREFORE, I have a reason to worship - to give honor and praise to my King no matter what my season is bringing me.  God is my constant, even as the seasons change. 

There are many verses that reference the steadfastness of God (about 200 in the ESV Bible) but this is one of my favorites:

Psalm 63:3, "Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you."

God's love is better than life itself.  And as a result, no matter the season I'm in, my lips will praise Him.