When God delivered Israel from Egyptian bondage, He told them, “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you” (Exodus12:2). This month was Abib, or the equivalent of our April. It was appropriate for April to be the first month of the Jewish year, for in April we see nature springing to life much like Israel coming back to life when they left Egypt.

If you have suffered a long winter of discontent, allow the spiritual sap to surge through your dreariness producing the beautiful blooms of a new beginning. Tell the devil, “My winter is over and my spring has begun.”