New Life

Just when I’ve had enough of the cold dark days, the sun breaks through and it’s a brand new season. Three months ago, I put into the ground over 400 tulip and daffodil bulbs.
For months, there seemed to be no life. What a waste of time and resources some might be tempted to think? What if they don’t come alive as promised?
What if they merely remained in the ground? But surely as the sun rises, in the twinkling of an eye, these harbingers of spring, rise out of the earth and with it bring hope of brighter days. Imagine what it must have been like for the Disciples of Christ. What started as a great week, with thousands waving palm fronds, ended with an earth shattering march to the killing fields, and then He was gone. Just like that, their hopes were dashed, their hero hanging from a cross!
They waited to see if He would miraculously descend from the cross, and ascend to the throne of David and restore Jerusalem to the Jews. Instead they had to reclaim His lifeless body and put Him in a borrowed tomb. One day passed, then two! Maybe death did claim another victim? The third day would be greeted by the defeat of death, when our Lord Jesus rolled away the stone and lives forever more.