Spring has been slow in arriving in our state and county this year. Yet there are subtle signs of spring starting to show. The minutes of daylight are getting longer each day and some seasonal flowers are beginning to emerge.
Perhaps you are beginning to emerge emotionally from a winter like season of grief or discouragement in your life as well. Perhaps your grief is slowly emerging from a season of emotional winter to a spring time of joy and peace. Just as spring is transitional, often reverting to winter like conditions, so perhaps you have reverted at times to periods of deeper grief as well. Yet you also are experiencing greater renewed hope and joy. Perhaps your night of sorrow is slowly developing into a dawn of joy and peace.
Spring is also a wonderful picture of new life in Christ. As spring brings new emerging flowers, newly revived green grass, and longer and warmer hours of daylight; so new life in Christ brings new joy and purpose to our lives. It brings salvation and forgiveness and a personal relationship with Him. It brings the assurance that the Lord will always guide and protect and that He will never leave us or forsake us, This new life brings an assurance and peace that we can trust our Lord God, and we can trust the promises He has made in His Word. If you have not yet accepted this new life in Christ, I pray you will do so; or if you have strayed away for a time from the sweetness of a relationship with Him, I pray that you will embrace it again.
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