Earth’s Greening

         Winter has held its death grip on earth making the landscape barren and bleak.  Then comes a turbulence, a restless unease in creation’s secret places, that manifests itself in wind and rain storms which the bowing trees and thirsting earth and its streams and rivers drink.

         Amid stormy cold snaps and warm sunny days, tiny new life appears exuberantly, silently shouting its arrival simply by its presence.  Against impossible odds the daffodils and jonquils lift their golden heads from the depths of earth and proclaim “Spring!”

         Following the announcement of the daffodils, the river birch wears a different shade of green than the willow leaning over the water’s edge or the green of the grasses that line its bank.  The dogwood and the flowering pear, clothed in white, greet neighboring brilliant bloomers.  Now, we know winter has released its deathly grip and life triumphs.

         Spring speaks of the Creator.  “All things were made by him {Jesus}; and without him was not anything made that was made.” (John 1:3 KJV).   He created the majestic mountains, the towering trees, and dressed the tiny trembling violet that claims its springtime place on the floor of the forest. Jesus says, “Consider the lilies of the field… even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.” (Matt. 6:28, 29 KJV).

          Spring, also, illustrates the gloriousness of life after death.  Words of Jesus spring to mind.  Jesus in speaking of the manner of his death says, “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.“ (John 3: 14, 15 KJV).

          Jesus says, “…, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24 KJV).  In Luke 18:33 (KJV), Jesus speaking of himself says “And they shall scourge him, and put him to death.  And the third day he shall rise again.”  Jesus lives. Just as he said.  

         Spring is earth’s testimony to the resurrection of life after death of the Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ, who walks “in newness of life.” (Romans 6: 4,5 KJV) and also of the glorious life after death for us, his followers. 

         May spring picture the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and life after death for all who believe.  May it be an invitation to believe in the Lord as Savior to all who have yet to believe.

-By Carolyn Collins