Seasons
As we look towards autumn, this new season in the year, I can’t help but remember the words of Jesus to the Pharisees, who failed to respond to the signs of the times and did not have the ability to recognize the season.
“Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?” (Luke 12:56).
Of course, Jesus was speaking on a global change that His arrival ushered in, a new season of the Kingdom of God returning to Earth, but I have realized how difficult it is for us to recognize the seasons within our own lives. Recently, Brandi and I celebrated 6 years of living in Krakow, which gave us a moment to reflect on the four very distinct seasons we have lived in, the BC era (before covid), Covid, the Ukraine War and Refugee response, and the reenvisioning of life after three years of chaos. Some things we have learned that are so key:
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Don’t judge your current season with last season’s scorecard.
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Everything, good or bad, is a season. Embrace it.
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Our awareness of what the Holy Spirit is doing is key to the importance of the season. The internal revelation of Him in us always has greater significance the outward struggles or fruit.
I’ve thought about the world of PI and our team over the last two years, as we’ve become a global team that will increase our ability to bring the message of the Kingdom to many. This has been a season of change and building. Yet, being aware of the supernatural weight of the moment, we have never seen a larger opportunity to equip the global body for the work of the Kingdom. We are more active in all five continents than ever before and are seeing the message of the Kingdom multiplied globally. The season of transition within our global team is paralleled supernaturally by the multiplication of the work globally. What an incredible Kingdom paradox!
I want to encourage us to embrace each season. Some are hard, some joyful. Most seasons feel uncertain. In the middle of every season, our ability to be sensitive to the activity of the Holy Spirit, of reading the signs of the times, increases the impact of that season, of the character and seed sown in hard seasons, of the cultivation and multiplication of fruit in the seasons of harvest. And as we do, our prophetic capacity to see, understand, and respond to what the Lord is doing in the present and the future, increases, maturing and developing us to become the world changing people we are called to become!
