Bad News Won't Change My Mind: The Sun Will Rise Again

By Mackenzie Kambizi

Bad News Won’t Change My Mind...

It’s going to get better - don’t die yet. You can make it. Don’t give up. You have been through too much to quit now. There’s got to be more for you. There’s got to be something else for you. There’s got to be a reason behind your challenges. Where you are right now

• Language: English
• Publisher: Equip Press
• Release date: Mar 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9781951304140

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Winter Is Just A Season

In most regions of the northern hemisphere, four seasons are experienced in one calendar year. The seasons are summer, winter, spring and autumn. I’m certain that each of us has a preferred season; and even more certain that for many of us, winter is the dreariest. It presents challenges on many fronts, not the least of which is driving skills when it snows or one has to deal with freezing rain. Winter, thus, is a season to be allegorized and teachings drawn from.

In the winter season, some folks freeze to death while others go skiing. Some folks relish a frozen winter for sports while others just need a breezing winter to usher them to the grave. Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heaven.

Some winters last rather long and are brutal in their nature, but be encouraged that no winter is everlasting. Imagine how the folks who are gifted and sharpen their talents in winter sports would feel if there was no winter. And for children, it would mean no snow angel. On the 25th of December, it would mean no white Christmas. For many in the entrepreneurial world, it would mean no booming business.

Thus, though winter is a period when things don’t seem to move at the pace one desires, with coldness being the norm and electric and gas bills going up, it is a blessing to many others.

Winter In Our Lives

As you’ve realized, I have taken the view, in this discussion, that winter is a double-edged sword. It comes with blessings and challenges. And though it is a money-minter for business folks and those who enjoy outdoor activities like molding angels in the low temperatures, it is a reminder of the fact that human beings face challenges that can only be compared to a wintry season.

In yours or in my life, a winter season can be the sudden loss of a loved one from a debilitating cancer, AIDS, the prospect of divorce papers to sign, lack of money to pay mounting bills and other calamities of a similar nature.

It can be a very trying season.

Given its dreariness, I have a few insights to share with you concerning the winter season. Firstly, know that winter is just but a season and seasons don’t come to stay; they come to pass. They are restricted to a certain segment of the year. With that in mind, it is wisdom to cease glorifying the situation you are going through. Like the winter season itself, what you are going through will come to an end and life will get back to normal. Fasten your seatbelt and weather the darkening winter storm; it will soon come to an end.

The second factor is that you are not the only one experiencing the dreary season; many others are too. Your lack of money or death in the family or loss of a job may feel like a huge mountain and you may be tempted to feel you are the only climber out there. Not so. In this world of sorrow and multiplying challenges, the sweep of a winter storm leaves none of us untouched. Since that is the case, we are to celebrate the fact that God has set us on the same highway, where we have many drivers with experience to learn from.

The third factor is that what you see during your winter season depends on what you look for. A child looks for a moment to wear protective wintry gear to build a snowman and finds it. A company founded on production of winter boots and related products looks to expand its market share and dominance and finds it. A painfully broken family, looking at maximizing a chance to find healing may also find that chance on the 25th of December – right in the middle of a peaceful snow storm. Hope grows well in winter; and true friendships are given greater life during winter. It all depends on how one regards the season and what one is looking for out of the winter season.

Factor number four happens to be my favorite. The winter season is a moment to prepare for the spring season. After you have gone through the winter season, you come out of it. Let the seed of your dream mature in the winter season so that when the spring season comes, it will germinate.

Be Strong Always

No matter what you are going through, whatever weight you are carrying, trust God; for the Bible says, Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God and believe also in Me (John 14:1).

Nothing can affect you without your permission. You may not always control what happens to you, but you can always control what happens in you. You can either sit and let snow fall on you and freeze to death or you can get your sporting gear out and ride on snow, enjoying what all the other seasons cannot give you – for only sweet winter can provide