Spring Every Day!

Chances are if you ask most people what their favorite season is they will answer Spring. Spring is a beautiful season. After a long sometimes cold and dreary winter, it is nice to see colors spring forth in life. Spring represents a re-birth of something that seemed to be dead. It is a fresh new start to another season. Did you know it is Spring every day of the year for a Christian? That is if we allow it to be. The Bible tells us in Phil. 3:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. That means every day is a NEW day. We are to forget those things that happened yesterday or even years before. Each day is SPRING! It is a new fresh day. Did you say things yesterday to someone you wish you hadn't said? Well today is a new day and you have a chance to make it right. Was yesterday a day you wish you could forget? The Bible says you should and move on. The point God wants us to see is that his mercies renew daily. Don't take my word for it. Lamentations 3:22-23 says It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. If God can forgive us and give us his mercy, then why can’t we forgive ourselves? Don’t listen to the lies the devil tries to feed you today. YOU are worthy because God loves you. You have a clean slate to start from today. I challenge you today to let Spring arrive in your soul and spirit. Feed it with the word of God and water it with living water.

Safe From Harm

I love how the Lord uses everyday things to show us his love for us. I had been traveling down this same road for a week. On this stretch of highway I noticed two small puppies that looked like they were hungry. I had tried on several occasions to coax them into my car. They would stop and look at me and then run away. I feared for them because I knew that was a busy road and was so afraid they would get run over. I also knew that coyotes were in the woods and might eat them.I couldn't get them off my mind. I tried everything I could think of but never could get them to come to me so I could get them to safety. About the third time I drove by the Lord reveled something to me. We are like those puppies sometimes. The Lord does everything he can to get us to walk under his protecting shadow. Psalm 91:1 (KJV) ¹ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. He knows what sinful traps lay around us and he tries his best to keep us on the safe road.  We like the puppies don’t follow the Lord sometimes like we should. Maybe it is fear that keeps us from following or just plain disobedience. Whatever it may be rest assured that we never leave the Lords mind. He NEVER gives up on us. I haven’t seen the puppies anymore so I can only pray they found safety. This lesson from God has taught me to pray more earnestly for that one soul that may be closest to hell. I pray that someday they will listen to the call of the Lord and find safety everlasting from the path of sin.