New Things

I have been thinking how thankful I am that ours is the God of new things.  I looked up Webster's definition of new and found some things to ponder in light of the Word and God's redeeming work in our lives.

• appearing, thought of, developed, made for the first time
• different from one in the past
• strange unfamiliar
• recently grown; fresh
• more; additional
• starting as a repetition of a cycle

For some, the last six months have been difficult, maybe the most difficult in their lives, and for others they have been some of the best.  Regardless of what the last six months held, we can all look forward to what the New Year brings.  But more importantly than the a new year, we can rejoice in what the God of new things can do in our lives at any time, during any season.

• He can give us new things that we had never thought of before and do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think. (Ephesians 4.20)
• He has given us a new heart, different from the one in the past. (Ezekial 11.19, 36.26)
  
• He can give us something different, something better than we had, even in the midst of a dry season.(Isaiah 43.18,20)
• When we wait on Him, he promises to give us a new strength. (Isaiah 40.31)
• Over and over the Psalmist tells us to sing a new song, and many times this is so the ends of the earth will hear His praises.   (Psalm 33, 40, 96, 98, 144, 149)
• In the midst of all our lives He is working out the story of redemption and the 'cycle ' He began in the garden to restore all of creation.

We are all in different places, new places. I am hopeful and wait expectantly to see all the new things the Lord is going to do in all our lives but so very thankful for dear, old, friends.
 

And He who sits on the throne said, 'Behold I am making all things new. And he said, write for these words are faithful and true. ~ Rev 21.5

Come Lord Jesus!