Sometimes it is easy to be aware of new beginnings-starting
school, a job, a marriage, having a baby, going on a short-term mission trip,
etc.
Sometimes it is not so easy, but I have been asking God to
make me aware of the new thing He is always doing, because He is about making all things new (Rev. 21:5).
The other day it hit me that we become old when we no longer look for the newness around us. We lose the
child-like wonder of the gift of a new day or a beautiful flower.
We have all seen people around us-no matter what
age-who have grown "old" because nothing is new to them anymore.
There is no sense of wonder. Sometimes we don't think
we like change, but every cell is in a constant state of change-living
things change, and that is part of the miracle of life. There is
something of the infinity of God that is revealed in the continuous
cycles of change we experience-both within and without.
Isaiah
43:18-19 talks about not just looking at the things of the past, but beholding
the new thing that God is doing. The phrase that captured me
was-"now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it?" I
often live so unaware.
He tells me:
If you will look, you will see-
If you will listen, you will hear-
And if you will be still-you will know that I AM GOD.
Join me in the treasure hunt of discovery-following
after our eternally creative God! May you look for Him
and
find Him at work in all the new that He is doing in your
life!
Here's to a renewal
of wonder in our days!
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