I love Spring. Plants are blooming again, people are out grilling, and you can hear the happy shouts of children all over your neighborhood. Can you not help but smile when you hear a child laughing? Spring makes me happy indeed...
Warren was deployed last summer and I left to visit my family for a couple of months. During this time, HR underwent a serious drought and when I returned, my yard literally looked as if it had caught fire. Everything was black! I had to chop everything down and hope for the best this Spring. Before I left, I dug up some older plants and planted two hydrangea bushes right up front. These two sad plants crumbled to the touch when I came back home. I left them in the ground and still hoped for the best.
About three days ago, I was outside fiddling round in my yard while Benjamin napped and alas, my favorite plant had teeny tiny leaves coming from the ground. I immediately thought of this verse and the ever popular song verse, "He makes all things new". If God can bring this plant back from complete ruins of the severe drought last year, imagine what He can do in your life with regular waterings.
Revelation 21:1-8
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away." And he who sat upon the throne said, "Behold I make all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true." And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the fountain of the water of life without payment. He who conquers shall have this heritage, and I will be his God and he shall be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death."
