Day Forty
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens
There is no denying that life moves in seasons. It’s hardwired into the world that we live in, from the weather to rhythms in culture and everything in between.
The book of Ecclesiastes is written by one of the wisest men who ever lived, King Solomon. He outlines 28 seasons but there is one season you won’t find: a time to quit. It’s never a time to quit or uproot yourself from what God has promised you. The only difference between those who receive breakthroughs and those who don’t is that the ones who do receive it refused to quit. God’s truth doesn’t say that those who overcome are the most talented or gifted, but rather they are the people who refuse to give up, who are crazy enough to believe God, and endure every season. They remain planted.
Quitting is easy. Staying planted and enduring takes something deeper. James writes:
3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.
James says that we will “need nothing” when we have endurance in our faith, endurance in our belief. Fundamentally, to endure means that you are willing to stay committed to stay in one place no matter how hard or how difficult things become.
In this year, this decade of Bold Action, one of the boldest things you can do is not just plant yourself, it’s not just to enrich the soil by dying to your will, but can you stay planted to matter the season? That is when we experience not just fruit in our lives, but lasting fruit. Fruit that remains.
Blessings,
Ryan Rolls