Joy in all Seasons

We know that the life we have on this side is just for a brief moment compared to the eternity we have waiting for us in Heaven. In a brief picture it’s like comparing the time we spent as an infant to the rest of our lives if we lived to be 100 years old. In a flash this life will be over and everything we did will be put on a weight, tried and measured by fire. Each season we have in this life is for a purpose and a reason, we are called to be the salt and light of the world. We are to preserve this world from decaying at a faster rate than it already is. We are to spread light to a dark world that has no hope. The pressing that we do in this life will not compare to the overwhelming beauty of the next. We are CHRIST, for He is in us and we are in Him and in Him we move and have our being!!! We can endure all seasons because our hope is sealed in a time of glory and a promise of a perfected body. No one took our savior’s life, but Jesus Christ laid it down for us to partake in the everlasting life, and our heavenly Father raised it again and made His name greater than any other name!!! No one can take our joy in any season, for our lives are temporal and this season of persecution or trail too shall pass, but the glory of God and our Hope in our Risen King shall last forever!!! While we wish to be on the other side with our Lord and Savior, it is as Paul said, it is beneficial for us to continue to press forward and to be the Salt and Light until the coming of our Savior!!! Have a wonderful life of enjoying seasons on purpose!!!!!

John 15

The Vine and the Branches
1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. 11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command. 15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17This is my command: Love each other.

The World Hates the Disciples
18"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.'[b] If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin. 23He who hates me hates my Father as well. 24If I had not done among them what no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these miracles, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'[c]
26"When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. 27And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.