What’s your weather like today? Cold and blustery, as if winter is desperately heaving its last gasp to remind us of its bitter power? Or warm and quiet, with just the slightest hint of a breeze? Are your trees and shrubs shivering as they wait for spring? Or have they already begun to bud as the sun’s spring rays coax them out of dormancy?

During the 40+ years I lived in New York, March almost always burst onto my calendar with the ferocity of a lion. As I commuted to my job in Manhattan, the tall buildings and narrow streets created wind tunnels that reminded me of Dorothy’s tornado in The Wizard of Oz. But whether early or late, spring always arrived with the warmth and gentleness of a lamb.

Lions and lambs. One regal and ferocious. The other gentle and helpless. Both used to depict the month of March. And both used to depict something else…

“Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep!
See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed.
He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain,
standing in the center of the throne” (Revelation 5:5-6).

 Jesus first came as a lamb – the lamb of God who was slain for you and me, for your sin and my sin. He submitted Himself to people who were clueless as to who He really was, and allowed them to kill Him in the cruelest way. “Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, so He did not open His mouth” (Isaiah 53:7).

But make no mistake, He will return. And when He does, He will come as the Lion of Judah, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords to execute righteous judgment.

C. S. Lewis has a terrific quote in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, when the children learn that Aslan is a lion. Lucy asks, “Is he… safe?” And Mr. Beaver responds, “Safe?…Of course he isn’t safe… but… he’s GOOD… He’s the King.” Some will not find King Jesus to be safe as He fulfills His role as Judge of the universe, but those who know Him as Savior will always know Him to be good.

It may or may not be true that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. However, it is absolutely true that Jesus came like a lamb and will return like a lion!