May 05, 2007
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An anonymous quotation at the end of an article in a recent edition of Good Housekeeping read: “Though no one can go back in time and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.”
I thought about that as I mused on springtime. It is a time of new beginnings. We walk around our gardens in the brisk spring air looking for signs of green pushing up through the ground. And it lifts our spirits. It is a time of a new start.
I wonder if we have ever considered that this is the very reason this time of year was designed by God to be the season when the resurrection of the Lord Jesus would take place. His rising from the dead was the signal that death had been conquered. And no matter how much we have been personally defeated in our personal lives, His resurrection means we can have a brand new start, a fresh beginning with a better ending.
This is the deepest meaning of the Easter holiday we have recently celebrated. His death is God’s answer to all our failure and sin. When we trust the Lord Jesus to take away all our sin, we put the past behind us and head toward a brand-new ending.
The four gospel records of the life of the Lord Jesus are filled with stories of people who came to the Lord Jesus to take away all our sin, we put the past behind us and head toward a brand-new ending.
The four gospel records of the life of the Lord Jesus are filled with stories of people who came to Him in desperation and had their future changed from gloomy to glorious.
The apostle Paul summarized such an experience when he wrote: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new.” II Corinthians 5:17. And we can have this same transforming experience ourselves through faith in Christ.

Russ Nesbit