- Seasons will Continue
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and sinter, and day and night shall not cease.
After the devastating Great Flood the Lord God makes a promise: not only will there not be another global flood, but also predictable seasons will continue as they are now, and earth people can count on it. Catastrophes that change life on earth and disrupt the flow of created things will not come, but regular life goes on and will continue. This kind of predictability makes science possible. There will always be seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night.
The sun will rise tomorrow. If you plant something a harvest will come. Seasons do not last forever. Predictable change will come in its time. The Flood changed the earth dramatically and permanently, but that will not happen again. There will be the cycle of life that one can count on. Be assured, whatever season of life you are in presently will pass and another season will follow. The principle applies to life and death, sickness and health, weal and woe. This too shall pass. Just as day follows night and seasons come and go you can be sure that what you are feeling at the moment, whether good or bad, will not last. This is not the way it always will be. Another day or another summer or will follow.
Everything changes. But another prophecy and principle of life is that everything you presently experience and know about will pass away. But, Jesus says, My words will never pass away. There is only one constant: God and His Word and Promise. That lasts forever without change. Also, the outward life is wasting away, but the inward life is renewed day by day. That life lasts forever.
But while we wait for that eternal, unchanging, full and rich and beautiful life to be seen and enjoyed, we will see change and decay, ups and downs, good times and bad, summer and winter, day and night, and so on. If things for the moment look gloomy and dark, rejoice for morning light and joy is coming. If things for the moment look bright and cheerful, remember that this good time, like life on earth, is temporary. So we do not pin our hopes upon what is temporary and changeable. We live by faith above the seasons and changes of life. We live in the eternal, unchangeable love of God. That will not pass.