God Can Grow Us In Any Season

​God's mission for our lives?

Growth.

Not perfection. Not arrival. Not applause.

Growth. Growth toward Him.

And the beautiful thing about God is that He doesn’t need the soil in our lives to be just right to nourish our growth. While we’re wondering when our season of flourishing will come, God is knowing that our season of growth is right now.

When it comes to growth, God doesn’t favor spring over summer, or summer over fall, or fall over winter, or winter over spring. With God, the season of growth is always now.

Today. This month. This year.

Right now.

So often we think, I’ve screwed up again. And God thinks, another chance to grow again.

So often we think, Why has this happened? And God whispers, Growth.

And so often we believe, This is it. I’ve arrived. And God reminds us, not yet. There is no arrival when there is still room to grow.

Grow. Toward Him.

We miss the value in so many days, so many seasons, when we lose sight of the mission: growth.

We use so many metrics to measure the worth of our days, the value of our lives. But God has already declared He values nothing more than us, and our worth is found in discovering that truth a bit more each day.

Discovering it in the joy and in the pain. In the easy and in the hard. In the summer and in the winter.

We may think there are seasons in our lives standing in the way, but God sees every season as THE way.:

Winter is coming. We can be sure of that. But hey, you’d be surprised what grows in the winter.

“Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”

(Ezekiel 47:12)

Every month.

They will bear fruit.