Right now the weather is changing and cold is setting in. The trees are dropping their leaves, the flowers dying, the birds leaving, the animals hibernating and we’re spending more time indoors due to dark, rainy days. We are going into another death pattern descending into the lifeless cold of winter.

This happens every year. The world dies and is resurrected again in a predictable pattern, going from the full life of summer, to the preparation of death in fall, to the actual death of winter, back to the first signs of budding life in spring where the daffodils poke their heads up heralding the full gardens of flowers to come in the complete resurrection of summer. We do this every year, and spring always follows winter. This happens due to a good God who is over all. But in the lifeless cold of winter, it can seem that it will never end. But it does. It always does for the Christian who has the Lord Jesus who represents the height of death and resurrection. Since this is His pattern, we can grab onto the hope that is to come after winter. We can look forward to the glory of the full gardens of flowers and birds, and warm, sunny days.

But, if you are in a winter now, consider this verse: Continue reading Death and Resurrection: a pattern for life →