During a walk through my lovely community, I thought about how extraordinary it is that Easter falls on the cusp of spring, announcing it as a time of hope bursting with new beginnings. Jesus had a plan from the start, didn’t He? Our Jewish savior used Passover to put in place a picture-story that would be more accurately understood thousands of years later. Today we see a much fuller scope of the Divine plot when He asked His people, far from home and in brutal captivity, to spread the blood of a lamb on the door lintel of their homes. The cross explained it. The empty tomb proved it. Our hearts experience it.
Jesus came to give life. New life, as in birth, comes only from Jesus. Here we are, in early spring, in the face of new beginnings and I wonder, what will the following months in my life bring about? What new growth, what fruit, what new creations? What will I give the world through Jesus in the days just ahead? Will I be more aware of the presence of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Desire of Nations, the Great I Am, the Alpha and Omega, the Bridegroom and Lover of my soul, the Lion of Judah and the Lamb of God, who died and rose again because He truly and passionately loves me? Every day is a chance to know this wondrous ever-present Lord and Savior, who is always lovingly attentive to each of us. It is so appropriate that a whole new creation began before dawn on the day Jesus stepped out of His grave and that we celebrate this pivotal event in early spring.