Seasons

Hillsong Worship spends most of "Seasons" inside a single extended metaphor: "like a seed in the snow, I've been buried to grow... though the winter is long, even richer the harvest it brings." Ecclesiastes 3:1 says there's "a time for every matter under heaven" — the song just refuses to skip past the winter part of that verse to get to the harvest.

What keeps the waiting from feeling like punishment is the claim that God himself works this way: "you could have saved us in a second, instead you sent a child." That's not incidental to the song's argument — it's the proof text. If God chose the slowest possible route to rescue the world, a manger and thirty-three years instead of an instant fix, then a long winter in one person's life isn't evidence God has stopped working.

The closing lines make the connection explicit: "like a seed you were sown, for the sake of us all, from Bethlehem's soil grew Calvary's sequoia." John 12:24 describes exactly that principle — a single grain of wheat has to fall and die before it produces a harvest. The song's whole structure follows that same shape, planting the image early and letting it grow into the cross by the final verse.