2 TIMOTHY 4:2
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
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A great man of God ounce told me, “You have an in season, and an out of season to your life. Right now, you are in your in season, but a day will come when your out of season will hit.” I have never forgotten those wise words given to me at an early stage in my ministry. It has kept me going through a lot of challenging times. Times when I felt so little or that nothing was going right. Those times when my own feelings stepped in the way or even other people that should have been an encouragement but were doing nothing but tearing down a fellow brother. I can always go back to that advise from that Pastor.
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So, how will those four words help you like it has me? There will simply be a day when you cannot do all the things that you used to do. In other words, health can get in the way. Other things can get in the way. And when this happens things can be harder to do. Specifically, all the things we do for God. Think about it. The Bus ministry becomes a lot harder. All the activities of the church you find yourself so physically tired of doing. Choir practice is harder, revivals, cleaning the church, Sunday School a challenge. All the things that we consider that tie to God. It is just harder the older we get. Our seasons are getting shorter and shorter. Every day is one day closer to the end of our life. The out of season of our life.
We now live in an era where, through Jesus, God wants to reveal and manifest himself to the world. In this era, God’s manifested presence is not meant to be rare or uncommon. It’s meant to be poured out everywhere. It’s meant to be a regular occurrence for believers to experience His presence manifested among us.
All these things uphold our freedom in Christ and allow for us to experience God’s manifested presence. Until Christ returns let’s keep walking in these things and in our assignment to help as many as we can to find and experience the freedom we have in Christ.
In the Old Testament God revealed and manifested himself at different times, but generally it was limited to a few and limited to one nation – Israel. In the New Testament we see that through Christ, God has chosen to manifest and pour out His Spirit on all people, from every nation whether young or old.
So how is this such an encouragement to me you ask? Simply put, it helps me keep going because there will come a day when I cannot serve my God the way I know I will want to. It absolutely breaks my heart to think I will never be able to ride a church bus again, go door to door visiting, lend a hug to a precious bus rider, or clean another church bus. There could come a day when even going to Gods house will become something impossible. Or how about this, even preach again. So, what this does is make me have a deeper desire to serve now in my “In season” while I can. Because my “Out of season” is coming. And this is the same for every person reading this. There are two seasons for every person. Let us get done as much as we can NOW.
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