Every year on this day I thank God for creating Spring. I know Spring doesn’t actually arrive for 3 more weeks, but in my heart Spring arrives when the month of March does. For me, Spring is the most joyous season of the four. New life begins in this month and each and every year as it does, I can hardly contain the joy I have watching it appear. I have crocus and dwarf iris already beginning to bloom. There is just nothing like Spring!

As I began my devotional time this morning I found myself reflecting on last night’s Celebrate Recovery share group. One of the men was lamenting his sinful act and talked about the verse in Psalms 139:14 that says we are fearfully and wonderfully made. He wasn’t feeling so fearfully and wonderfully made as he looked at himself. I have lived in that world much of my life. As I got to my bible reading in Joshua, the closing chapters; Joshua has brought all of the Israelite leaders together. He challenges them to hold fast to the God Who brought them to this Promise Land. In Joshua 24:15 he says, “But, if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you then choose you this day whom you will serve….”

We all have our “flesh moments” just as this man last night had experienced. It doesn’t have to determine our destiny. Isaiah 1:18 tells us, “Come now, let us settle the matter, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow….” This promise is what Christ has done for this man, for you and for me if we only give it to Him. I choose Christ!