Ahhhhhhh! Today was a third glorious day in a row. I've been working outside more lately as we have been sending out more and more equipment and maintaining it when it comes back. It has been frosty and cold each morning when I get up, and I've had to scrape the frost off the windshield, but by 10:00 each morning, the overcast skies begin to burn off and the air begins to warm up from the bright sunshine, and by mid-afternoon it's been almost sixty degrees.
Just a week ago, I was whining about the cold. I don't like the cold. But, because we have been provided with seasons, I know the cold will only be temporary, and I know too that I will get to enjoy the gradual warming and beautiful colors that spring ushers in.
Our lives have seasons too, and those are temporary as well. We've all read the verse, right?

Eccl 3:13:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:KJV

I think the key words in the verse in this train of thought I'm having are, "under heaven." Hmmmm. It seems to me that the under heaven part is what makes things in this life, from our point of view, temporary. We are only under heaven while we are 'in' this world. It might be asked, "Isn't Earth temporary for everybody though?" True enough, but, we're not 'of' this world. So, while everything that we go through here in this world is temporary, as believers, we share a different perspective on things. For us, our lives, our 'eternity' began the very moment in which we submitted ourselves to the grace of God, through Jesus Christ, His blessed Son. We were translated through His forgiving and merciful love, from beings who belong to this overcast world, into new creatures, who merely sojourn here, for a short time. When our journey through this world is done, the brightness of the countenance of our Lord will burn off the coldness of this world and we will bask in the glory of His presence forever. Kind of casts a different light on me whining about a cold day doesn't it? Not to mention all of the people in the world who have something to really be upset about? That's who I should be thinking about, and that I should be ready to be used in and out of 'season,' so that as many of them as possible, become 'sojourners' too.