I remember the time my wife called and asked me to go look out the window and see if her little peach tree was blooming. She was away on a short business trip. I looked out the window, and sure enough, there was one pink bloom.
Every spring when plants start blooming and the air is sweet, (if you live in the country) you know things are alive and there are powers we can’t see. It always gives me hope that there is life, a new life.
For me that life is in Christ Jesus. I remember many years ago when life was bleak and lacking something. Someone came to my house and shared with me how God loved me, and Christ died for me on the Cross.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
That evening, I got down on my knees and finally on my face, asking, (pleading with all my heart) God to forgive me for all the things, (Sins) that I had done wrong.
1 John 1:6-10 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Not only did I ask God to forgive me, but I also asked (I was afraid He wouldn’t) Christ Jesus to come into my life and be my Lord and Savior.
I can’t really explain it, but peace, calm and joy came into my life. Just as that new bloom indicated new life. Christ’s resurrection indicated the hope of a new life.
Colossians 1:18-22 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,...
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