Is it Spring yet?

Longing.  I would assume most of us right now are longing for spring amidst all the snow and cold.  Longing for not just the word, "Spring" but an all encompassing sense of Spring.  We don't want Spring to arrive and not have warm sunshine, flowers pushing through the cold ground and  the smell of newness in the air. That is what we want.  We know it's coming, it's just a matter of time.

Wanting what is not yet here seems to be how we live.   

Living for today and longing for tomorrow is a fine line to walk.  Let us long for God in our tomorrow's as we live for Him today.  Longing for Him and not things, wanting hope and not worldly security, desiring peace and not prosperity. Longing to praise Him tomorrow for what He did today. We can long for the newness of what each new day will bring because it is Him we want to know more.  In that, whether our tomorrow is here on earth or starts out in eternity, it is with Him.  Let our longing be focused on Him who is eternal.  Worry is then cast aside as a pointless sin because tomorrow can only bring us closer to God.

Longing for God is much more certain than even Spring.  It fills our lives with much more than fleeting moments of color and beauty.  Let us long for what lasts. But I have to say....God, "Thanks for Spring!" He is good!  Enjoy every moment!