New Things 2014

Isaiah 43: 18-19 “Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
 Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.” 

New in quality (innovation), fresh in development or opportunity – "not found exactly like this before."

It all started with the daily Bible verse on my cell phone the first day of this new year– Isaiah 43:18-19. And it is beginning to revolutionize the way I look at my day. I’m slowly replacing the old pessimistic “things will never change, there’s a cloud of doom over my head, it could have always gone better than it did, I expected it to fall apart and it did” philosophy.

As 1 Corinthians 5:17 says, “at the point of my salvation the NEW came into my life.” Christ exchanged His righteousness for my sin or reconciled me to Him. And I have been too absorbed with the past and the now to see that the NEW is happening every day as He continues to create the new me. I'm to be the creation becoming more like Him each day.

So now I’m keeping a New Things 2014 calendar. I’m keeping a record of everything that happens to me that has never happened before. Every fresh development. Every new opportunity. Every “not found exactly like this before.”

Yes, some of the new things are trivial but, hey, they’re new. So I make a notation on my calendar.

I've figured out that these new things bring me to the point of reactions and attitudes. That's what God is interested in - creating new in me. 

Anyway, looking for the NEW every day has helped me see that God is always around and working in me.

Let me say that again (to me.) Looking for the NEW every day has helped me see that God is always around and working in me.

In the little things

and in the big things in life,

And if you are in Christ the old has passed away for you. 

The new has come. Just look around.

2 Corinthians 3:18
And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.

Like the old D.C. Talk song says (I can’t believe I’m calling it an old song, 1990);

"God is doin a new thang,

Ya know He’s doin it."

New Things 2014