Spring Is Coming: Not the Season but the Resurrection

March is usually an exciting time for many people. With Spring coming we think of warmer weather and flowers blooming. It is a beautiful time of year. Plus Easter is always around the corner. The timing of Kyler's death is very interesting to me.  The morning I went into labor it was very cold. We didn't know he was in distress. We were just anxious to arrive at the hospital to meet our little boy. It would be just a few hours later that Kyler would go to live with Jesus. 

A week later Brad and I left the hospital.  It was so painful, yet we had hope.  Leaving the hospital with empty arms reminded me of the empty cross and the empty tomb.  We had and still have HOPE because of what Jesus accomplished for us!  When we walked outside the temperature was in the 70s.  People were wearing shorts and the sun was brightly shining.  Exact opposite of just a week earlier. 

March 22 will be 10 years our lives changed.  10 years of knowing our Savior Jesus in a way that we would have never known Him had we not walked down that dark road.  We have learned what it truly means to trust in Jesus, to delight in Him, and commit our ways to Him, as Psalm 37:4-5 says.  Knowing the One who suffered immensely for my sins.  I love the lyrics to Casting Crowns' song Just Be Held.  "Your world's not falling apart, it's falling into place.  He's on the throne, stop holding on and just be held."  God's plans cannot be thwarted.  He is working everything out for His glory and our good.  I still struggle with understanding that at times.  But that's okay, He knows that. 

So just like the cold day when Kyler went to heaven, then the warm spring day we went to our house without him, so will be the day when Jesus will return and those who have died in Christ like Kyler will burst forth from the graves and we who are alive and are Christ followers will meet the Lord Jesus in the air!  SPRING IS COMING!!  The new heaven and the new earth will be glorious.  No more tears, no more pain.  Thank you Jesus!!!  And then we will see with our eyes the SON shining brightly!