April...showers, colored eggs, bunnies, baby lambs, green grass, tulips, daffodils, budding trees...those are a few of the things that remind me of this spring month. And here we are on April 1, April Fool's Day. Will you play a trick today?
Although we can expect rain this month, as the old adage says, it is also filled with the signs of spring and new birth that are so delightful. The tips of green that appear on plants this month offer hope and joy that we haven't seen for several months. Everything seems new and fresh. You can even smell spring in the air. Everything is changing.
This year, Resurrection Sunday is in April and we can anticipate the greatest celebration of all time. Who could return to life but only our precious and perfect Lord Jesus! But before the celebrating arrives we will walk with Him through the darkest week of all.
April affords us highs and lows as we move through it. Times will be happy and sad; there will be joy and sadness, then great joy! Anticipation. Heart-breaking anguish. A rollercoaster ride of emotions. Life.
"Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime; it is the Lord who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone," (Zechariah 10:1 NIV).
We start through this month of expectancy with hope and awareness that spring will make itself known to us. We prepare to face the holy week of a procession of glory, then a predicted dejection, and culmination of a short life lived for you and me. It is so much to process. Such madness to grieve over. So much to be thankful for. Such a mixed-up juxtaposition of a life. All for us.
Prepare yourself. April's going to be an interesting ride.
May the Glory of the Lord lead you, day by day. Amen.
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