Throw It Off!

Just in case you missed it, spring came in a very dynamic way this past weekend. Even most of the weather projectors missed it. But we didn’t. I saw so many people out there for the first time this year, enjoying the sun, warmth and singing Robins. What a great start to a wonderful spring.

One thing I did notice right away was all those people, including yours truly, taking off the winter coat. On my way to the office I had to wear the coat with only 5C. When the warmth arrived just past nine, off it came. Winter seemed to go on forever. and we have been weighed down this winter, bundled and wrapped in those large, heavy, bulky coats. I say, throw them off! Put them away and get ready for some freedom. Sunday raised my spirits as I threw off that coat, breathed in the fresh clean air and felt reborn into this spring.

Reborn in spring, with its evidence in the snow bells that have been up for a little while and Saturday I took notice of the crocuses waving their beautiful white blooms in the wind. They pushed with all their strength and threw off the fall leaves that covered them all winter. Now they are free. Soon the tulip and daffodils will be joining them.

This is one of the most amazing times of year where we push back the cloche of winter to reveal the new life discovered in spring. And so it should be. Jesus threw off the shroud of death and rose from the dead. Now, we can throw off all that weighs us down and entangles us. Actually, Paul wrote something in Hebrews 12:1.

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, . . .”  Does it stir you heart? Receive the new life offered by God in Christ as we mimic the new life we see in all of nature around us.

Something to think about.

Rob