A New Spring in Your Life!

So it's official - we have just experienced the worst winter for many years. But although it may be late, there are now many signs that spring is on the way.

As I have travelled around the countryside with my friends in recent days, we have seen the snowdrops coming into bud and bloom. We have excitedly pointed them out to each other.  Then, more recently, primroses have begun appearing on the banks of the roadside ditches and the wild daffodils are coming into bud - all evidence of the new life about to burst out in our woods and fields and gardens.

And what an apt picture this is of one aspect of the Gospel we preach. The Bible describes the natural man -the man or woman without Jesus Christ in their lives - as being “dead in trespasses and sins”; dead because of the spiritual life which was lost when Adam sinned, a condition that we have inherited. But the glorious truth is that through faith in Jesus Christ, that life can be restored and experienced here and now.  Jesus said, “He who hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has (note - present tense) everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death unto life” (John 5:24).

Life with a point and a purpose, in contrast to the disappointments and let downs of life lived without Christ.  And, of course, it means a life lived in fellowship with God, experiencing his daily presence, with all the resources of heaven at our disposal. Good News indeed.  How sad that Jesus had to say of many of his own day, “you will not come to me that you might have life” (John 5:40).