It’s #FiveMinuteFriday again and today’s word prompt is TURN. Join me, and others if you like, as we look in a peculiar way at the word Turn.

“You change your life by changing your heart.” ~ Max Lucado

We have just breezed through a gorgeous fall here in Southern Indiana and are rapidly heading toward winter. Some say a catastrophic winter is in the forecast. As difficult as it is predicted to be, soon it too will be over and the first daffodils of the season will be poking their little yellow heads up through the dirt.

Seasons.

Change.

They are both inevitable.

How do we handle those seasons that seem to be so heavy and so disastrous that we can’t even poke our heads up long enough to see the sunlight?

What do we do when all seems lost and every solution seems to be worse than the problem itself?

 “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.” Deuteronomy 28

Look at Job: Satan had accused God that Job didn’t really love Him for who He was but for what he could get from him. In a moment, everything he ever loved or cared about was gone; stripped away.

Yet, he trusted God and still believed that He was just and that the man who trusted him would be blessed; maybe not financially, but honored of God and taken care of!

In every season, in his most difficult season, Job clung to the hope that God was who He said He was. In the end, Job was rewarded countless times over for his faithfulness.

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1.

Do we love God in every season?

Do we falter when His blessings are taken away and we find ourselves in an unwanted season?

“I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud And your sins like a heavy mist Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.” Isaiah 44:22.

Cling to the promises in the Word of God. Grab hold of them and don’t let go! He will walk you through your difficult season; He will carry you if necessary.

Turn to Jesus. In every season.