Happy New Year to you all!
I wonder how the idea of new-ness strikes you? On the one hand, it sounds very exciting. We would love to think that 2021 is going to be different from 2020 and that we will see our lives getting back to some sort of normality – in this case, it’s not so much looking forward to new things but rather welcoming back the old.
God is actually all about new-ness. In Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah recounts what he hears God communicating to him - “See, I am doing a new thing!” These words were spoken about 2,500 years ago, but they also ring out to us because God is still doing that new thing even after all these years. |
See, I am doing a new thing!” |
With every blessing for this New Year!
John Ryeland |
. . . being transformed into his image . . .In some way, Isaiah may well have been glimpsing the coming of God in Christ – an event that is relevant to people in every generation, and an ongoing ‘new thing’ in the life of every believer. As Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 3:18: “And we . . . are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory.”
This is God’s dream for every one of us, not only as we stand at the beginning of this New Year, but every day of our lives. Each time we come before him like we do in encounterprayer, we invite him to speak to us, to work within us and to continue transforming us so that we might become more like him. |
