Song of Solomon 2:11-12 (TLB)- For the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers are springing up and the time of the singing of birds has come. Yes, spring is (almost) here.
Dear Friends, have you noticed the daffodils and other bulbs beginning to spring up in our gardens. Driving up to the Central Coast yesterday I was aware of the wattle blossom – the little yellow balls of fluff that brightened the otherwise gloomy grey day. Yes, Spring is almost here.
There are many meanings to the word “spring”
LEAP or SPRING
When we are out walking we sometimes have to leap over a ditch or puddle. It is a jump from the known to the unknown, from the well-worn to the new. It may be the leap of faith, trusting in God to hold us up and to guide us. He will go with us as we take the risk and leap, and he will show us the way in the unknown places. When has there be a time when you’ve taken a leap of faith and stepped into the unknown?
COILED SPRING
Sometimes we feel like a coiled spring ready to snap.. the pressures around us become too much at times for us or our families to handle.. God has said to hand over these troubles to him.. Psalm 55:22 Give your burdens to the LORD, and he will take care of you……………. 1 Peter 5:7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. When we feel stretched to almost breaking God restores us to our original shape. He brings us back to the shape in which He made us, and in which He wants and loves us. I’m sure we’ve all experienced these times when we have that tight knot or coil in our stomachs. Let us remember what Peter says to hand over all those worries that stretch us almost to breaking point – it might be worries or concerns about family or friends, about our own health or financial worries – hand it over to a God of Compassion and he will care for you.
SPRING OF WATER
This spring bursts out of the rocks, or from the ground beneath us and flows through the land freshening and re-vitalising as it goes. Even its sound is refreshing when we are hot and dry. It provides water to drink and to wash in. We think of Jesus at the well in Samaria and his promise to give that woman, and us, ‘living water’. ‘Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.’ (John 4:14 NIV). God refreshes and revitalises us through this living water.. The Psalmist also reminds us in Psalm 23 that “the Lord is our Shepherd and he leads us by still waters to cool and refreshing places” have you been aware of being refreshed and revitalized by the power of the Living God?
As we began, Spring has many meanings: throughout it all God is there helping us to make that leap of faith, teaching us to enjoy the beauty of His creation, telling us to give to Him those things that make us feel like a coiled spring inside and finally God wants us to accept the spring of living water that we might know his love and care and never thirst again. Amen
In Christian Service,
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O let all that thirst
Let them come to the water.
And let all who have nothing,
Let them come to the Lord:
Without money, without price
Why should you pay the price,
Except for the Lord?
And let all who seek,
Let them come to the water.
And let all who have nothing,
Let them come to the Lord:
Without money, without strife
Why should you spend your life,
Except for the Lord?
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