Lessons in the Long Winter

[536 words] This winter seems like it’s stretched out extra long this year, doesn’t it! Winter is a very tough season as summer fun is long past, the pretty leaves of fall are gone, the trees are bare, and the days are colder. It can be a dreary, drawn-out, difficult time for many. Is there anything we can learn from the “long” winter season? Since Psalm 19:1 states that “the heavens declare the glory of God,” you would think there is something we can learn even from this cold, bleak season – and there is. Winter reminds us that God is faithful to His word. God said in Genesis 8:22, “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.” The change of seasons is proof of God’s faithfulness to His word. If we don’t like the heat of a…