What season is it?
Football season?
Time to put on our Seahawks gear and cheer? Well…maybe…unless someone comes down with a virus, or the air is too toxic to play and the game is canceled.
Apple harvest season?
Well…maybe…unless a forest fire in Eastern Washington rages through the apple orchard.
School season?
Well…maybe…unless the schools don’t meet in person, or there’s a power outage on what’s supposed to be the first day of school (as it did in Federal Way on the first day of scheduled online classes!).
Pumpkin spice latte season!??
We can get one now, but can you actually sit in the coffee shop and drink it?
This makes it sound like the seasons of life are not nearly as predictable as we would like them to be. Are you prepared for whatever season might come in our lives, no matter what adjustments we might have to make?
Uncertainty seems to be our life theme, and we are having to hold much of life with a soft grip because of the unpredictable nature of it all. With this being true, how do we really live? We are being forced to live on the fly and constantly be ready to adjust, aren’t we?
The Bible speaks to this.
2 Timothy 4:1-5 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
This is the focal passage this coming Sunday morning, September 20. This message will launch an entire year of study that we as a church family will embark on. If COVID-19, racial tensions, political conflicts, economic ambiguity, and educational interruptions have taught me anything, it’s that there is NO certainty or guarantee or predictability for THIS life. The only way to live is with certainty is the Word of God.
I am asking you to read this passage and contemplate it heavily. I am using this Sunday morning as the springboard for the next nine months of study of God’s Word. Please prepare yourself to listen, be challenged, and be ready to make a new commitment in this new year.
See you Sunday morning through one of our “three doors” into LifeWay:
- In your small group streaming the service together
- At the Dash Point campus (registration required!)
- Watching the live stream at home
