Day 33 - Springtime People
God’s glorious creation is giving us a foretaste of spring. Spring is a wonderful time of rebirth, renewal, and resurrection. All creation is bringing glory to the Creator who made it all.
In A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway reflected on spring’s unfettered joys. “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.â€
What is God up to in our world? Raising up springtime people, the very few who are as good as spring itself. The world desperately needs springtime people. Aslan is on the move, and spring is coming.
As followers of Jesus, we have God’s invitation to become springtime people—transformed by His amazing Grace. The writer of Solomon’s Song leaves Hemingway in the dust.
“Listen! My beloved! Behold, He is coming, climbing on the mountains, leaping on the hills! My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he is standing behind our wall, He is looking through the window, He is peering through the lattice. My beloved responded and said to me, ‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come along. For behold, the winter in past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers have already appeared in the land; the time has arrived for pruning the vines, and the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land. The fig tree has ripened its figs, and the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance. Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come along!’†(Song of Solomon 2:8-13)
Today’s Scripture Promise: “For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.†(Romans 8:29)