I love this time of year. We have been blessed with a very mild winter, and an early spring. The birds are building nests, the flowers are blooming, the trees are budding, and Mary and I are 2 weeks away from being grandparents for the third time!! Signs of new life are all around us. Just a few weeks ago, however, things were brown, dead, dormant and dismal. Spring was something in our future, now it is our reality.
Sounds like the Gospel story doesn’t it? Once things were dead, dormant and dismal, sin had a death grip on our lives, things looked bleak. But then Jesus came, and transformation has taken place. He told us that that we could have new life because he was alive. This is the message of Easter! He has overcome death, and has come to give us new life. As you spend time in the Word the next couple of weeks, reading about the events leading up to the Resurrection of Christ, don’t forget to thank Him for the new life he has given you. Also, don’t forget to pray for someone who still lives in the dead, dormant, dismal life of sin, separated from Christ. Pray that the resurrected Lord would bring them to a place of transformation and life. What a message! What a Savior! What an opportunity!
Michael G. Palmer
District Superintendent
Missouri District Church of the Nazarene
314.962.8977 office
314.962.6229 fax
“The Missouri District exists to equip and empower local churches in making Christlike disciples.”
