A New Season: Praying for the Harvest

Today is the first day of fall and I for one am thankful for a new season.

Don't get me wrong, summer was great. It was a sweet, refreshing season but even the sweetest of seasons leave us anticipating the next.

Earlier this year I found myself hating the fact that seasons come and go. Life seemed like a perpetual roller coaster of good seasons and then hard seasons- up and then down. And it seemed exhausting. But lately I've realized that I love the seasons. They are so consistent. A season may be hard but it doesn't last. Spring always comes.

The seasons always change.

Each season brings newness and awakening and we don't have to fear them or the change they bring. Because a woman who fears the Lord does not fear hard seasons. "When it snows she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet" (proverbs 31:21). A woman of God is clothed in the scarlet blood of Jesus Christ and she has joy and hope even in the coldest of winters. 

And so I chose to joyfully enter into this new fall season, leaving behind a gloriously full summer but not fearing the chill that is coming.

Because when the seasons change, God is doing a new thing and we can literally feel it in the air.   

So now it's officially fall and that means more than boots and crunchy leaves and fall flavored lattes (although I do love those things). Fall is a season for harvest. And this fall I am praying for a great harvest. I'm praying that the seeds that have been sown in our previous seasons of sweetness or seasons of trial would bear fruit. I'm praying that we will see revival.

Jesus said that the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few (Matthew 9:37). There's a plentiful harvest out there this fall, people! So let us be the workers, the hands and feet of Jesus, who go out into the fields reaping the harvest that he has in store.

Ultimately, I'm not sure about all that this season has in store. But I do know that this new season will not last forever. It is fleeting, winter is coming, and we must make the most of it now. And above all, in this season, God will be faithful and that is more than enough.

So especially now "let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." (Galatians 6:9).

Fall is here. The harvest is ready.

Our mission fields are waiting.