Hello Everyone
The God of new beginnings. As God takes His kingdom key and unlocks the door of a new year, there is a certain hope that comes to us when we dip our toes into the fresh waters of a new chapter. As we begin to inhabit the untrodden journey ahead, we can be very sure that God is the God of new beginnings.
If we take a retrospective glance over the Biblical story, we will see that God is the God of new beginnings. The moment Adam and Eve moved outside of God’s best and broke all of creation, God initiated a new beginning. Thankfully, it was not the final episode in the history of humanity. God didn’t leave the cosmic catastrophe for finite humans to fix. Rather, God did a new thing by laying down a redemptive pathway that He graciously invited humanity to walk on. You and I are on that pathway now. Yet, imagine for a moment if God was not the God of new beginnings and He chose not to do a new thing. We would be trapped in the fallen woods of the groaning creation with no hope of escaping the hungry wolf of sin and brokenness and no chance of being restored to our Maker or our purpose. Think deeply about that for a moment. It is a terrifying predicament! But God is a benevolent Father. There is no other like Him. No other religion has a God who did something new to redeem His broken creatures. In all other religions the onus is on humanity to do something new to attain and retain their acceptance with the God(s). How unique and grand is our God that He would come to the wastelands of those who were His greatest offenders to offer something new. As undeserving as we may be, our God is the God of new beginnings.
When it comes to God, the new is not only limited to His act of salvation. God is the God of new beginnings every day. Today we are under God’s new covenant, living in the truth of 2 Corinthians 5:17 as new creations in Jesus. God removed the old which held us captive and replaced it with the new. So, we enjoy His mercies which are new every day (Lamentations 3:22-23). The thread of “God’s new” keeps unravelling around us as God’s new thing will always supersede the old thing in ways that we can’t imagine (Isaiah 43:19).
But there’s more . . . God is the God of new beginnings, now and until the end of the ages. As we look forward there is a resounding affirmation of God’s intention to finally make all things new, and between the “now and not yet” of God’s new creation, we are privileged to wade in the new and living springs of God’s fresh waters of faith as He washes us clean past, present and future.
So, friends, get your “new thing” on in God today.
Best days to come.
Wen