Last week a tease of spring brought rain and thawing 40 degree temps. By evening the wind was roaring down from Canada and we plunged to zero for the next several nights. Snow whipped around us every day, sandblasting the house in icy shudders. Maybe you've been shopping for spring finery but we're stuck in mid-winter! A thick layer of ice hidden under dry blowing snow keeps us stepping gingerly in our boots. R was out on the back patio Sat. swinging a maul to break a path to the bird feeder.
Everyone I meet yearns for spring as if winter has gone on forever. But the sun rides higher and longer in the sky now and I open the windows to the noon sun with the snow too bright to look at. The cold settles back in as the sun sets, throwing long blue shadows that make the snow look like a sparkling wooly blanket pulled up tight around the bare winter trees. In spite of its persistence, winter will eventually give way to mild and muddy spring (my least favorite season here).
Winter hates to loose its grip just like that ancient agent of evil, the devil. Once Satan gets his hooks into us, he wants to make sure we share his miserable fate. The Apostle John warns in 1 John 3:8,
"He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil‘s work."
What a relief that Jesus came to destroy his wicked work and set us free from his devices! As the warming sun drives winter into the past, Jesus Christ can make Satan's influence on us a thing of our past, too. There's no reason for us to continue in his icy death grip of. James 4:7 promises, if we,
"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
Then spring will bloom eternal in our hearts!
Love as always, Elaine (Blooming, whatever the season!)
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