A God For All Seasons

A God For All Seasons

Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Psalm 42:8

God is a God for all seasons.  As the psalmist who penned our text contemplates his woeful condition, he finds that God is his only hope.  His enemies have taunted him with the question, ‘Where is your God?’  He has given up on worship at the house of God where he ‘used to go.’  He has been depressed and his soul has been ‘cast down.’  When all around his soul has given way, he has resorted to his only refuge.  He says to himself, ‘Hope in God.’  In our text for today, the psalmist cites the utter consistency and dependability of God.  He says,  ‘Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindess in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.’  Here is a God for the daylight hours and for the seasons of darkness.  We all have them.  When we look to Christ, we see that He is a God for all seasons.  Consider how many miracles He worked, and how many souls He engaged during the daylight hours.  He ‘went about doing good.’  Beyond that, contemplate how many times He encountered folk in the dark times, when the winds howled, and the waves were high.  So, Christ is a God for all our seasons.  When we are well, He is our God.  When we are ill, He is still our God.  Whether we are rejoicing in the sun or sorrowing in the darkness, Christ is always ours.  ‘Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindenss in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.’  He is our Hope in every season.  Jesus never fails.

Our Good and Kind Savior,
we rejoice that You draw near to us
and meet us at our point of need.
We praise You that in all our changing seasons
You remain ever faithful.

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning