Well, I don’t think it’s really spring yet, but we’re already beginning to see some blossoms appearing here in the south of Spain. We haven’t had snow like in more northern parts of the continent, but there has been so much rain over the past few months that the government has now announced that last year’s drought is officially over and all the reservoirs are full again.
This morning in my quiet time, I read Isaiah 55 verse 10, which says that the snow and the rain both have the purpose of watering the earth, making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for sowing and food for eating. After spending three weeks in Norway, where there was so much snow that you couldn’t even see any plants, it made me think about the fact that there are spiritual “seasons” in our lives, just as there are physical seasons in the world around us. This verse is a reminder that even the winter snow waters the seed that God has deposited in our life, and prepares the ground for fruitfulness, so that it will produce even more seed in the future.
When the snows come, at first they “block” everything, and no growth can penetrate their cold hardness... but when they finally melt, that same snow that was previously a blockage becomes the very thing that causes watering and fruitfulness. Likewise, any winter seasons that come in our lives, as hard and unyielding as they may be, and as much as they may block our fruit for a short while, can be “turned to good” by God, and be the very things that water and strengthen the deposit of His word and His promises in our lives. Because, as verse 11 explains, it is the word of God that really brings fruitfulness, as we allow it to take root in our hearts and continue to hold on to God, even amidst the harshness of winter when it comes.
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