“…Behold, I make all things new...”
Revelation 21:5
So, this is the season of resolutions. Is anyone out there still pursuing their
take on it still?
However, more than likely, we may
be at our usual rut state of mind kind of living. Abandoning the promise of
hopeful change, supposed found in a new year’s resolution, we may feel we’re
only destined for more of the “same old, same old.” How joyful.
Anyone else,
besides me, jumping up and down with glee about that little nugget of thought?
New. There’s
a large part of us that wants to feel new, shiny, a possibility filled kind of
being. Yet, it seems, more often than not, our lives and realities don’t
reflect that shiny newness.
I’d like to
think the new is happening in process, like this little baby bird hatching.
Really?
Could you and I be hatching into something better, something different, even,
something new? Could God be up to something new?
God has plan
for us, according to Jeremiah 29:11:
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the
Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Did you
catch that? God knows the thoughts and plans for us; we don’t. So, why should
we ever assume it’s “over” for us, in any way? You and I are both still here,
right? God doesn’t write us off; why should we?
There is a
new future, even when we don’t feel it, see it or know it for our lives. It’s
not hopeless. It’s never hopeless.
God is doing
a new thing for you.
“Behold, I will
do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even
make a way in the wilderness, and
rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:19
But don’t
get caught up on the old things of your life.
Where is
your focus: the past, the present or the future? They all play a role, but
don’t negate the rest of your life, just because of something from the past.
God is a God of restoration, healing and new beginnings…
“He sent his word, and healed them, and
delivered them from their destructions.”
Psalms 107:20
“For I will restore health unto thee,
and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an
Outcast...”
Jeremiah 30:17
“I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
canker worm and the caterpillar and the palmer worm…"
Joel 2:25
That means
new! That includes you!
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a
new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
2 Corinthians 5:17
Do you feel
like you’re constantly in process, never getting to the end of it? Keep this
baby bird in mind. God is doing something new for you now. Eventually, you will
see it hatch!
Copyright © 2015 by Sheryle Cruse
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