All things new

The coming of Spring, and I am again floored at God's limitless beauty. He truly does make all things new. The drab days of winter followed by the floods of early Spring can just about convince us that life will forever be filled with darkness. We look around and all we see is a blanket of wet, gray lifelessness. And oh, how our own personal seasons of life can mimic God's design for nature as well.

Knowing that all aspects of life on this human plane are under God's sovereign control, I think it is no accident that God ordained Easter to occur during this season of life returning once again to the earth. As we look around at the mercy of his calling forth the plants to bud and skies to blue, I am reminded in a deeper sense of his mercy in giving his Son as the ultimate remedy for darkness.

Because Christ laid down his perfect life once for all as the final sacrifice for sin, and was raised again to new life that first Easter Sunday, all who accept his offer of redemption are lavished with eternal life, abundant life, both now and forever. What an undeserved, unfathomable outpouring of grace on our sad state of affairs! We could never earn it; our attempts at goodness in our own strength fall staggeringly short every time (Romans 3:23). But because the God of Winter is also the God of Spring, he provided the Perfect Remedy on our behalf, without price on our part (Romans 6:23). My heart races at the thought of such a profound gift...especially as I remember my own wretched heart.

And so, on this day before Resurrection Day, I praise you again, merciful Daddy, for the gift of your Perfect Son. May you pour out your presence on all those who love you...and even more on those who do not know you yet, that they might come to find eternal hope from your beautiful gift of True Life (Romans 10: 9-10).