YOU WILL LIVE AGAIN!

Dearly Beloved, YOU WILL LIVE AGAIN! “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease” (Genesis 8:22 NKJV). One of the observations I made when I went to the United Kingdom for further studies some years ago was the changes in the seasons of the year. Obviously, this will be so as somebody who came from a hot-climate area of Africa to a very cold-climate area of Northern Ireland. I went to this part of the world during the autumn season. As the season changed to winter, I watched as many plants and trees started becoming “dead” by shedding all their leaves. Throughout winter, a first-timer in that part of the world would think that these plants and trees are lifeless and dry like the leafless trees in the tropical part of the world. But someone familiar with the seasons there knows that the leafless and seeming dry plants and trees are very lively. As the spring season started, I noticed that these seeming lifeless plants and trees had begun budding flesh leaves. It seemed new life was coming into them. I was inspired especially by this new life coming to the seemingly lifeless plants and trees. If God can be fulfilling His promise in Genesis 8:22 in the lives of ordinary plants and trees, and they are coming back to life again, He will fulfil His promises in my life. No matter how lifeless I may seemingly be, I will blossom again. If an ordinary tree has hope when it is cut down that it will sprout again and that its new shoots will not fail (see Job 14:7), no matter my downfall, I will rise again. If a tree’s roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil, yet, at the scent of water, it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant (see Job 14:8-9), no matter my setback, I will progress in life. I join Prophet Micah to declare: “Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me” (7:8 NKJV). The Lord took Prophet Ezekiel to the valley of very dry bones, and asked him if the dry bones could live again. The prophet could not answer in the affirmative. God asked him to prophesy to the dry bones. He did, and the dry bones came back to life (see Ezekiel 37). Are you feeling lifeless and hopeless in your situation? You will live again! There is hope for you. You may be in the wintertime of your life. The springtime is coming when you will spring up. If the Lord is keeping His promise for ordinary plants and trees, He will fulfil His promises in your life. I say again, you will live again! In His service, Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor). Prayer Point: O Lord, bring me to the spring season of my life and let me flourish again.