Hurrah! It’s Spring!

                It finally came, the season called Spring. Like many of you, I never thought it would get here. It officially came to me last week; I mowed my grass for the first time this year.

                It’s usually the same year after year, the days shorten, the leaves fall and right after Christmas, gloomy days and cabin fever sets in. Then the spring catalogs start coming in and we get antsy wanting it to hurry up. But it will come in its own good time. Patience is required to keep things in perspective.

                We may get fooled with one or two nice warm spring days. The stores will have plenty of customers buying plants and flowers and supplies. They rush home to plant and fertilize, then bad news! A storm front is reported to be approaching, freezing temperatures and a hard freeze is forecast. Unless you know your horticulture, your work was for naught and the plants will die.

                Even those who know the signs and seasons will get a curve ball thrown at them at one time or another. It’s the same with patiently waiting for the return of Christ. He has given us signs to be aware of, things that will signal His triumphant return, “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” Matt 24:36.

                Many have called out the hour or the day of His return. They have all failed. Even many of us get concerned with all the signs we see today. Not concerned about His return per se, for that is a joyous occasion, but concern for our unbelieving loved ones. Our patience runs weak, the same as it does during the depths of winter.

 

    Just to keep us on our toes, sometimes a curve ball is pitched. Those curve balls are to get you deeper into the Word to check things out and see what God said about the subject. It’s when we think He is coming right now, when that warm sunny day comes out of nowhere, that we find that cold front returning. It was a glimpse of a promise of what is to come, if we practice patience. But just as spring will arrive, so will our Lord. Both are promises from God Himself.