March, Seasons, as a Microcosm for Life

The weather changing like it does in March reminds us of where we live, somewhere everyone experiences the four seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Every year is a bit of a microcosm for life, because our life has seasons. In Ecclesiastes 3:1, Solomon wrote, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”

Winter reminds us that life has difficult times, bitter cold and fighting the elements. Spring is optimistic with good times coming, pleasant and mild. It speaks of new life and renewal. The heat of summer perhaps parallels with intensity and movement and deadlines and pressure, sweat and toil. Fall is wistful and reminiscent, as leaves drop to the ground, last gasps and moments as the end draws near. A life contains all of these moments, but also comes in segments that ends in Winter.

As life leaves the body, it grows cold. In his death throes, King David was cold and needing warmth. Relationships are warm and death brings the final separation on this earth. Every living person resides on earth, a planet, that turns and turns, the sun rises and sets, each day with its own history, a bright beginning and a dark ending.

Seasons come because the earth moves like time, presenting new opportunities but also deadlines. Your life is a vapor that appears for a little while, like James writes in the fourth chapter. And Paul commands, redeem the time. Moses is credited with writing Psalm 90, who writes, “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” The four seasons portend good and bad times, but also the steady faithfulness of God as He continues upholding all things.