Tag: Spring

Spring!

On By BrianIn PASSION Reflections

Spring is here!  Temperatures are rising.  The sun is shining. Trees are budding.  Flowers are blooming.  New life is popping out everywhere after a long, cold, lonely, weary winter.

And Jesus came to offer us our own personal Spring, to give us new life in Him.

After a weary winter of personal sin and guilt, Jesus offers us a new life with all of our sins and guilt washed away.

After a lonely winter separated from God, Jesus offers us a new life with a loving relationship with Himself.

After a cold winter of cold hearts towards Him and others, Jesus offers us a new life with warm and loving hearts towards Him and others.

After a long winter of suffering and trials, Jesus will one day offer us a new life with no more suffering, no more death, no more tears.  He will make all things new!  Spring will be eternal!

As Spring appears all around us, may we remember and rejoice in the Spring Jesus came to give us.

Spring Is Coming

On By BrianIn PASSION Reflections

As I write this, the snow is melting in northern Michigan. The weekend promises days in the 50’s. The hope of Spring is in the air.

And yet by the time you read this, it is supposed to be cold again. Back in the 30’s. Chances of snow. Winter isn’t over quite yet.

Jesus has come, and with Him the hope of a new world. He healed the sick, cast out demons, and raised the dead. He died for our sins and gave us a new life in Him.

And yet sickness and evil and death remain. We still sin and fail to live as God has recreated us to live. This fallen world isn’t over quite yet.

But just as we know winter will eventually give way to Spring, so we know that this fallen world will one day give way to a new world. Jesus is coming. Sickness and death will end. Evil will be defeated forever. One day we will no longer sin.

In the final days of winter, as you look forward to Spring, set your gaze a little further to the promise of a new world.