Breath of Life
I think March is a tough month for those of us in the northeast cause the winter starts to drag on along with that whole seasonal affective stuff, lack of sunlight, etc.
Thank God for April and May when the ground starts to thaw out, the snow melts, and new life is brought about after a long time of deadness. Isn’t that like God, to bring life out of death, triumph out of tragedy, beauty instead of ashes?
As an older worship songs goes: “for the day will come, when we’ll all be gathered. and the Sun will rise with healing in its wings, and all those years of pain won’t seem to matter, when our eyes behold our Teacher and our King… when I’m weary from the fight, and trying to do what’s right, you bring times of refreshing to my soul”.
“Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” – Acts 3:19
Category: Musings
Is God stern and angry, or warm and kind? In a sense, He is both. He is a father who delights in His child, so He therefore disciplines His child with a rebuke (Proverbs 3:11-12). Another contemporary image is the oncologist. He is a cancer specialist who will do anything to destroy that which destroys. He will surgically cut away flesh; He will burn out cells through radiation; and He will poison them with chemotherapy. The treatment is, at times, brutal and appears cruel, but the result is profoundly life-changing and lovely. Discipline, though it often feels like a judgment that exiles and abandons us, is a labor of love that beautifies the heart through the disruptive touch of a severe mercy.