The Wintry Way

Weston Park Baptist Church

he seasons of the heart are not always the sunny summer months or the extravagant colours of the spring season. There are also the coldness of winter and the melancholy of autumn. The winter of Psalm 39 speaks from the winter blast of sickness, disappointment, and length of years. The tenor of the psalmist is one of absence and distance from God where are you in my pain and suffering? Such questions also rise up in our own hearts in such wintry spiritual seasons. Will we maintain our faith and hope in God or do we turn away in frustration and anger? How will we travel in our own cold epochs of the heart?