It has officially been spring for four days now.
Though spring itself has already been here for a week or so.
Still, as I stepped out of my car today and felt the warm glow of the sun on my bare arms, smelt the fresh air and heard the birds twittering in the distance, I felt as though I was letting out a breath I'd been holding.
All through winter, in a way.
They say that spring is the season of rebirth and life and I can see what they mean. Spring is often associated with God's grace. The Grace that restores Life to the Dead simply because. Simply because He can and He wants to. I look out the window and walk around the school and everything is bursting with life after months winter. Everywhere can I see God's grace in sustaining our world even through millennia of rebellion.
The reminders that Life is a Beautiful Gift. It is Grace in action. Everything breathes to the steady rhythm of Grace.
But I saw something on Facebook that made me stop and think.
I can't remember exactly what was said, but I do remember the gist of it. It was a reminder that all the spring time births were conceived in darker seasons.
And I realised... spring is not so much about new life. It's not so much renewal. Though they are all part of it.
Rather, when the spring sun shines it shines on the Grace that has always been there.
The spring sun brings light to the hidden Grace, the secret renewals, the quiet workings that are unseen but are so, so vital.
The spring sun is God's spotlight pointing to Grace already fully developed. Already fully there. On Life already restored.
It is how God says to us "Look, you couldn't see it in the winter months when everything was cold and gray, but my Grace was there, it was working. But I've saved the best for you: here, take the end product. This is what Spring is for, to show you that my Grace never stops working."
And I'm so glad God has been whispering the Secret of Spring in my ear today. So, so glad.
Because I've needed His Grace today. I've needed to remember that even when the sun is hidden by the clouds that His Grace is still active.
The past few hours have been discouraging. Maths related, of course. But oh so discouraging.
The little, nitty-gritty details that just won't stop coming up, the tiny things that aren't quite perfect, and don't get me started on that unit I'm struggling to wrap my head around, or that fact that I pretty much failed the last exams or any of the rest of it.
And they've felt like a mini Winter and I've been looking out of my window and wishing for Spring. Wishing for it all to be over and to see the sun shining.
And God's been whispering, "the sun shine will come in time... but remember, all it does is illuminate Grace that is already there.
"Don't give up."
And outside, the spring sun shines.
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