Spring...here at last...Is there any season that is anticipated with greater excitement...even impatience? Winter is cold and dark and dead (at least the trees look dead!). Spring is warm and light and life bursts forth. But this morning it occurred to me that spring doesn't come all at once. It begins with sporadic days of milder air in late February that give hint to the change. It is announced by the little daffodil trumpets and laughing forsythia bushes. But then the land awakens over time, with different kinds of tree and bush and flower (and weed) emerging in leaf and flower in a progressive way. The animals also awaken and we hear them call to one another with chirps and croaks and coo's and caw's as they remember the need to reproduce. Spring comes to us in a similar way. Our souls are prepared by the Holy Spirit before faith awakens. At a certain point the apparently dead seed within us bursts out of a wrapper and rises above into the air, announcing new life like the flowering daffodil. But the rest of change progresses over time and spring does not come all at once. As we move through the season of new life in the Lord we find that He makes "all things new" but it takes place over time. Just as different flowers bloom on different schedules, so we progressively bloom as the garden that makes up our personality is tended by Heaven's Gardener.
Revelation 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
blessings,
Rob Smith
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