Spring has sprung! Praise God!
Dick and I traveled to the southern part of our state this
week for church business. While there, we slipped in a short walk around the
neighborhood where we used to live. The spring flowers dotting the yards and the
blossom-covered trees lining the streets were bursting with color and fragrance.
The birds singing their joyous melodies, the fresh scent of rain-washed air,
and the chance to walk hand in hand through quiet streets, awed our senses and renewed
our spirits.
Winter begins to feel unending about this time of year for
me. I can get very “blah” and uninspired by the barren, colorless trees and
flattened, faded grasses, so it was great to be reminded of the beauty that
will be coming to our northern area soon. I thank God for the infusion of new
life into my worn, insipid soul.
God has been renewing my spiritual life lately, too. My
blogging friend Bill recently wrote that he had been
lulled into a spiritual stupor from which he needed to awaken. I could totally
relate to Bill’s feelings. Like my winter “blahs”, I was spiritually “blah”, my
relationship with Jesus having become routine and overly familiar. I had lost
my “awe”—then Jesus drew our daughter into a close walk with Him, a totally
sold-out commitment.
A few months ago, Erin started attending a different church,
one with more youth involvement for her sons. What she heard and witnessed
there profoundly impacted her spiritually. Though she had asked Jesus to be her
Savior at an early age, she had never really allowed Him to be Lord of her
life. When she opened her heart to Him, He moved right in! As she began living
for Jesus, He opened her eyes to His work around her. He showed her how His
Word is alive and active and oh so relevant. It has been a wonder-filled
experience that God has inspired her to share with me.
And my own life and faith are renewed by Erin’s accounts of
the positively awesome ways God is moving in her life. Her wonder and awe are
inspiring. Her faith and trust are contagious. Her enthusiasm and determination
are motivating. My heart overflows with gratitude not only for what God is
doing for Erin, but for infusing my own spiritual life with a renewed awe and
appreciation for Jesus. My eyes of faith have refocused so I am beginning to
once-again see the movement of God to which I had become oblivious.
It’s like the awakening of Spring—in
my soul!
I ask that your minds may be opened to see
his light,
so that you will know what is the hope to
which he has called you,
how rich are the wonderful blessings he
promises his people,
and how very great is his power at work in
us who believe.
Ephesians 1:18-19
Be encouraged!
Pam ©2017 Pamela D. Williams
