Springtime
I love springtime. It’s my favorite season. I love it because of its beauty. Where I live, the trees burst forth with blossoms as well as hedges and flowers. The color pallet of spring is the color pallet of new life. After everything looks dead from winter, all dull and gray spring breaks forth to tell us life overcomes. It overcomes very beautifully too.
Springtime makes people happy; many of them often cannot explain why. But I believe it is due to a hope it draws on deep within. A hope that desires all will be well.
I am not surprised that the resurrection of Jesus would have taken place during springtime. The two seem to go together. It’s just another reason for me to love springtime all the more.
Hopefully, some are happy just reading how happy I am about spring. The lighter greens as new leaves emerge on the branches, the vivid colors that dance in the breeze, the quality of the light during the day, and the blue of the sky all give me cause to praise Jesus, my Lord, and Savior. It just makes me happy deep down to think about it.
I love the expression of the creativity of God in creation in spring. To me, spring also is like a prophet of freedom. After being all shut in during winter due to the cold, spring is like being released to get outside again and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine.
My Father uses springtime in my life to remind me of the victory of His Son Jesus, who gave Himself for me at the cross to pay for my sin and reconcile me to God and then three days later rose from the dead, triumphing over death, hell, and the grave!
Winter, to me, is like the days after the cross when the disciples were hidden away due to fear of the Jews. I imagine that it felt like the end of a wonderfully good thing to them. I imagine it felt like a final moment, every day feeling like weeks or months to them. I know how winter drags on for me—shorter days of light causing there to be more darkness than at any other time of the year.
I don’t think it is by mere coincidence that Spring follows winter as it does. It is just as God intended it to be. He created it to speak to those who can hear its message.
Oh, the declaration of life spring is. Jesus is alive; death could not hold Him, which means Satan could not defeat Him!
No wonder I am so happy and full of joy. My Savior lives! He loves me! Just as He lives after death by rising from the dead, I, too, will live after my physical body has come to its last day. Jesus is coming again; when He comes, my body will be raised to be with Him!
I never die, just as spring plants aren’t dead in winter; they’re just sleeping. It just looks as though they are dead. But they are always alive and just waiting for the sun to shine on them in such a way as to call them forth into a glorious manifestation of life!
Hope springs eternal in those who genuinely know Christ! Jesus is coming soon! the dead in Christ will rise first, and those of us who remain will be caught up, and so will we ever be with the Lord.
My Jesus is alive and loves me. Can there be anything better than that?
