December 31
2015
A new thing
Do not remember the former things,
Nor consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:18-19
Happy Thursday!
New Year’s Eve day
Foggy and wet here in Porter’s Lake
John’s gone to work
Nico is napping
And I sit here with a cup of tea and my devotions.
Thinking
Thinking about the year past
Thinking about the year ahead
Thinking
And the Father whispers into my heart
A new thing
A new thing
A NEW THING
And then He point out Romans:
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Romans 8: 14-16
And a page later:
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28
And yet another page:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?…Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39
And a smile slowly spreads across my face
And I sigh
A sigh of relief
A sigh of agreement
Great and mighty are the promises of God for a new year.
For we need not go forth in fear
For we are no longer in bondage to that thing
But are able to cry out “Abba Father!”
We need not go forth worrying about the circumstances we will find ourselves in, in 2016
Because we KNOW that God will take EVERY circumstance and use it for GOOD in our lives.
We need not go forth in doubt or worry, worry about all the things we see happening around us in the world
For we KNOW that NOTHING can separate us from the love of God
We are secure.
And because we need not give way to fear or worry or doubt
We can enter into that NEW THING that the Lord has prepared for us
Even a “road in the wilderness”
And “rivers in the desert”.
What road do you need laid down today?
What desert needs a good watering?
Come to the Father
Rest in His Embrace
Listen to His heart for you
Lay your burdens at His feet
And watch the NEW THING arise that He has prepared just for you.
Be still and know that HE is God!
For He will renew your strength.
Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the LORD,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Go forth into this new year
In stillness and quietness
In the power and the might of the Lord
And watch all things become new!
Happy New Year’s Eve!