I love new things. New cars, new clothes, new music, new climbing gear, new anything. Even used things that are new to me. I even like things I just bought from goodwill that aren't anywhere near "new" they are just new to me. I love new things.
I think God loves new things too. He created a world brand new. He made a covenant, then He made a new covenant. He made people, and he made people who continually make new people. In fact He created a world that is continually creating and producing and changing and renewing. It seems that God finds beauty in new things. But I think there are things more beautiful to God than new things, and I think there are things that compel humanity to more awe and wonder than new things. I think the greatest beauty is found in renewed things, in redeemed things.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says that in Christ we are new creations. The old has gone. The new has come. It's beautiful. But it's not beautiful because a new thing is born, it's beautiful because something is being re-born. Something is being renewed.
There is little on earth that rivals the birth of a child, new life, except for the renewal of life. The only thing in life that is more beautiful than a child entering this world is a human entering new life.
The only thing that is more beautiful than a new place, is a renewed place.
The only thing more beautiful than a new anything, is the old one renewed.
There is something deep inside of every human that loves seeing something that is broken being fixed and renewed. As much as we love new things we long to see that which is already here become all it could ever be. In our hearts lies a dream of redemption, and it is a slight glimmer of the heart of God still found in us. Even in the depths of our fallenness we can see the image of God, and that is beautiful.
I'm about to start something new. I'm moving across the country to a new city and new church and new friends. But really I'm just in a renewal process that will continue as long as a live. God wants to renew things in this church and city, but he also wants to renew things in me.
I'm excited about new things, new horizons, but I'm more excited to see the remnants of the image of God being renewed in a church and in a people and in me. I'm going to a new place that has been there for a long time. We are just being made new.
The Old is Gone.
The New is come.
I think God loves new things too. He created a world brand new. He made a covenant, then He made a new covenant. He made people, and he made people who continually make new people. In fact He created a world that is continually creating and producing and changing and renewing. It seems that God finds beauty in new things. But I think there are things more beautiful to God than new things, and I think there are things that compel humanity to more awe and wonder than new things. I think the greatest beauty is found in renewed things, in redeemed things.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says that in Christ we are new creations. The old has gone. The new has come. It's beautiful. But it's not beautiful because a new thing is born, it's beautiful because something is being re-born. Something is being renewed.
There is little on earth that rivals the birth of a child, new life, except for the renewal of life. The only thing in life that is more beautiful than a child entering this world is a human entering new life.
The only thing that is more beautiful than a new place, is a renewed place.
The only thing more beautiful than a new anything, is the old one renewed.
There is something deep inside of every human that loves seeing something that is broken being fixed and renewed. As much as we love new things we long to see that which is already here become all it could ever be. In our hearts lies a dream of redemption, and it is a slight glimmer of the heart of God still found in us. Even in the depths of our fallenness we can see the image of God, and that is beautiful.
I'm about to start something new. I'm moving across the country to a new city and new church and new friends. But really I'm just in a renewal process that will continue as long as a live. God wants to renew things in this church and city, but he also wants to renew things in me.
I'm excited about new things, new horizons, but I'm more excited to see the remnants of the image of God being renewed in a church and in a people and in me. I'm going to a new place that has been there for a long time. We are just being made new.
The Old is Gone.
The New is come.
