CHANGES

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May is a month of change. Hopefully, we see April’s snow showers leave! And as we flip our calendars ahead, the weather warms, green leaves and grass return, and we soon realize God is blessing once again His beloved creation with life and renewing!

May also brings other changes. For one, it’s the joy of receiving a child home from college or the military. For another, it’s that mixed bag of emotions of realizing school is ending forever and ‘adulthood’ is becoming reality. Children are born; jobs change; we cope with a loss we had not expected; and we end up looking both ahead and back and contemplate the preciousness of the days of our lives.

God’s Word speaks to other changes we go through as a Christian. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away;

behold, the new has come” 2 Corinthians 5:17. We look back and see the wintery times of our lives when our love was cold and feel the icicles of regret hanging on us because we have sinned against God and man. But through the grace of the Gospel, we also look back to the good news of our Savior, who took our sin upon Himself to redeem us. We see how Jesus became man and has paid for every evil deed we’ve done and given us the credit for His perfect life.

When faith is created in our heart, our old sinful nature is drowned and buried with Christ. His blood was the April showers that washed our guilt away and now new life springs up within us and we grow to serve our Savior. This is the new life of Faith and it is God who makes this change!

The key to weathering any change is this: learn to see God’s hand in whatever you go through. If we can see God’s hand, we know He is present in that change. If we can see God’s hand, we see the nail marks that show the depth of His love and that ours is a God that saves – what shall we fear?! Whatever change you are going through, see God in it all and there you will find your peace!

Rev. Daniel McQuality
Grace Lutheran Church (ELS/WELS)

 

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