The ministry of Bridget Grace
Our first beautiful granddaughter was one month old yesterday. Her mom and dad allowed us to gaze at her for several hours and Great Grandma (my wife, Beverly) got to hold her while she slept. It was true ecstasy for me to observe firsthand. And for Beverly, it was the highlight of her morning.
Her birth reminded me of the incredible miracle of physical birth. To contemplate how God pairs sperm and an ovum to create a life, complete with the unique DNA of a unique human being, then cradling it in the protecting nourishing custody of a mother’s womb is a miraculous mystery culminating in the emergence of a viable visable beautiful life perfect in every way.
Wow!
The second gestation of life is our spiritual rebirth when we, dead in trespasses in sins, are born again, responding to God’s gracious call to new life in him. We become a new creation in Him. “Old things pass away and all things become new”. ll Corinthians 5:17; John 3:1-15
Wonderful!
And now in the Easter season we are reminded of another transition from our inevitable physical death and the hope of the resurrection, “this mortal must put on immortality” because flesh and blood cannot inherit the eternal kingdom of God, l Corinthian 15:50-58. At the tomb of Lazarus Jesus proclaims, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die yet shall he live…” Read the whole story in story in John 11 as Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead.
Waiting!
Having a beautiful great grand baby is a reminder of the paradigm of life--the “wow” factor of physical birth, the hopeful “wonder” of the new birth in Christ and the joyful “waiting” for our purchased, provided-for and promised resurrection with, through and in Christ.
Thank you, Bridget Grace, for this-- your unintended but inspiring ministry to me in this Easter season.