The Great Migration is considered one of the grandest spectacles in the natural world. More than two million mammals participate in this annual parade. The seasonal conditions of the Serengeti, a vast East Africa ecosystem that spreads from Tanzania’s plains to Kenya’s Masai Mara, establishes the timing of the event.

Leading the procession are the zebras, usually about 200,000 in number. The striped beauties are followed by the main attraction, about one-and-a half million wildebeests. And bringing up the rear are nearly 500,000 Thomson’s gazelles.

The Great Migration is a brilliant display of God’s creativity and His execution of perfectly timed seasons in the lives of all things, including four-legged herbivores.

Seasons were created by God in the beginning, when He said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them mark off the seasons, days, and years. Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth” (Genesis 1:14-15).

The psalmist acknowledged that it was God who “made the moon to mark the seasons” and ordained when the sun would set (Psalm 104:19). And Daniel chimed in with: “[God] controls the course of world events” (2:21).

Regarding the precision of the seasons on earth, God Himself asks us: “Can you direct the movement of the stars—binding the cluster of the Pleiades or loosening the cords of Orion? Can you direct the sequence of the seasons or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens? Do you know the laws of the universe? Can you use them to regulate the earth?” (Job 38:31-33).

Today, reflect on the seasons of life you’ve journeyed through thus far and thank God for His perfect timing.