Number 41: March 20, 2006
 
Today is the first day of spring. Of course, it is snowing heavily and all the school districts in the entire area are closed. Someone once referred to spring as a transition from cold and flu season to allergy season. God though, has a purpose for the seasons. He placed lights in the heavens to serve as signs for set times, like the seasons. The word “seasons” infers a measure of time.
 
Genesis 1:14: [Tanakh Translation]
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate day from night; they shall serve as signs for the set times—the days and the years.”
 
There are times or seasons or signs that only God knows.
 
Acts 1:7:
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
 
I Thessalonians 5:1:
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
 
These verses are referring to future events. There are signs and seasons that man has been able to figure out. However, many have missed the greatest purpose for the seasons, understanding the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Matthew 16:1-4:
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
 
The next time it snows, let it be a reminder of the faithfulness of God to His Word.
 
Isaiah 55:10 and 11:
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.