1 Peter 1:23-25; "For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, "All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever." And this is the word that was preached to you.

Spring is such an amazing time. There is a freshness and newness like no other time of year. The air seems to smell sweeter and life just seems to pop up all around us if we look for it. We begin to see the snow disappear and the grass reappear. I love all of the flowers that begin to bloom in the spring giving us a vivid pallet of color like no other time of year. Spring is a season of hope. It is a season of life coming forth anew again rising out of the cold and dreariness of winter.
Many view Spring as a time when we see the beginning of new things. Many people see it as a new starting point for their lives.

It's as if we see the earth being reborn around us and say to ourselves that we can be part of it. We want to have the opportunity to start over with a clean slate and live life to the full. But a lot of us are just looking for Jesus. It is through him that we have been reborn; it is through him that we have been given life; it is through him that we have the opportunity to shed off the old life and take on the new.

It is during spring with all of the life being reborn that I think of my life in Christ and the rebirth that has taken place because of my relationship with Him. If we have accepted Christ for who he is, the son of the living God, and we have asked him to be Lord of our lives and to forgive our sins, we are born again. Christ tells us this in his conversation with Nicademas where he says that no one can enter the kingdom of heaven unless he is born again. We are born into a new life with Christ, one in which we can go to him with all of our cares and concerns, and one in which we seek to follow what he has asked of us out of a love for Him.

This passage in Peter is great because it gives us a perfect visual illustration of what our lives are like. We are not invincible like we sometimes like to think that we are. We are not going to live forever here on earth - it's just a fact of life and nature. But the encouragement we can take from this verse is that the Word of the Lord will endure and stand forever. Our God is everlasting to everlasting, the great I am. So being born again into a new life with Christ is not perishable because of the enduring word of God.

Standing on our own we will perish, it is inevitable. But we know the God who lives forever and through his word has offered us the opportunity to be called his child and have an inheritance in the kingdom of life with him.

Final Thought: Start this week fresh by asking God to erase the past and lead you into the future.