I’ve been hearing a lot lately that “God is doing something new.”
It’s exciting! But that revelation is not something that is just happening recently.
God is always doing something new!
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
His mercies are new every morning!!
Wow. Boy, am I grateful for that! Each and every day, God allows us a restart. I just love that He created us to have to go to sleep at the end of each day, giving us the opportunity to wake and start again.
Can you just imagine a never-ending wake? That would be rough.
So, why do we not always notice that He is doing something new?
I don’t know. Maybe we get wrapped up in our lives, situations, and circumstances. Maybe we aren’t ready for a change.
Whatever the reason, when we choose to open our eyes and see what He is doing, it can be life-changing!
We don’t have to dwell in our pasts.
We don’t need to re-live our mistakes every day.
There’s no reason to keep the old us around because when we are saved by Christ, He makes us brand new!
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17
We go on to read, “All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:18-19
What is reconciliation anyway?
Reconciliation is the restoration of friendly relations. It’s a restoration of harmony, a settling, resolving. It comes from the Greek family of words that has its roots in allasso. The meaning common to this word group is “change” or “exchange”.
Basically, God sent His son, Jesus, to restore the relationship between us and God.
He exchanged our fate and made it His.
Jesus died so that we might choose to be forgiven. And when we choose to ask for forgiveness, believe that we have it, and follow Christ, we become “born again”, which is just a fancy way of saying, we get a restart!
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So, recognize the new that He is wanting to do! Understand the phenomenal blessing of forgiveness that we have been offered.
Receive it and allow God to do something new in you!
Stop re-living the past and dwelling on the mistakes. They no longer matter. You have been made new and God wants to use you and your story!
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