“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22), I sat down one day, and I thought, why does God allow us to have seasons? Part of God’s great design of this earth is seasons. We experience wet and dry seasons, the typical four seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall, and there are planting seasons and harvesting seasons. We see creation moving through seasons each year, and we ourselves live through seasons, as well. In these seasons, we learn to depend on and come to expect things. So, too, we find in the Bible that our lives go through seasons.1 Ecclesiastes tells us that everything has its time and season (Eccl. 3:1). The beautiful thing about the four seasons (winter, spring, summer, and fall) reflects the glory of the creator, God. The answer to why God allows seasons is for Him to receive the glory and praise (Gen. 1:31). The seasons remind us of the true existence of the Creator and His active presence in His creation. Seasons also remind us of the movement of time and the changes that occur in the life of every human being (Ecl. 3:2–8). Again, I thought, should evangelism have a reason? Those who would say yes might use the excuse of a “bad reason” as a barrier to going out to evangelize. Those who would say no would see every season as an opportunity to obediently evangelize. If you are for YES, you have no grounds for any excuse in the summer season. Remember! God calls us in season and out of season to proclaim Christ as His only Son and the only way to the Father (John 14:6). The reason for the seasons is for no excuses, for God’s glory, even in the proclamation of Jesus Christ, and for our own good.
