Spring Brings New Life

April brings Spring and the beginning of a new growing season.  Tempatures are higher, and the breeze is warmer.  Gardeners prepare the soil for planting.  Lawn-mowers are tuned up, and people are outside working in the yard.  Children are playing outside.  Buds open, and leaves sprout.  Flowers are coming up.  It seems like the signs of new life are everywhere you look.

For Christ-followers, April follows the death and resurrection of Jesus.  Christ’s resurrection represents forgiveness of sins and power over sin and death.  God’s grace gives us hope and love.  Our lives can be made new by what God has done through Christ.  Spring brings new life to Christ-followers.

For those like me, Spring also means that my back pain is reduced.  My body does not ache as much.  It seems like the warmer weather breathes fresh air into my body.  So Spring brings new life physically, for which I am grateful.

I hope and pray that God will renew your life this Spring.  May Christ’s resurrection give you new life and hope.  If you’re not living with Jesus, why not begin today?  Read His Word in the Bible.  Share your joys, concerns, and gratitude to Him in prayer.  God is ready to give you a new life; are you ready to receive His wonderful life, hope, and peace?  If you’re tired, rest in Jesus (Matthew 11: 28-30).  If your life seems old and worn, let the Master change you and renew you. 

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”  Ezekiel 36:26

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:  The old has gone, the new is here!”  2 Corinthians 5:17

“You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.”  Ephesians 4:22-24