In a new year I like to focus on God's newness.
The old has passed, the new has come. January first
marks a time to put the old behind us. No matter how
bad the previous year was, we can say that it was last year
and we are in a new year with endless possibilities.
It's for this reason that I am focusing January's devotions
on newness and things that God declares to make new in the
Bible. Despite my liking of newness, I was very
surprised at something new today.
I live on the east
coast and got two feet of snow a week before Christmas.
Currently the temperature has been dropping into the teens
and single digits overnight and the high hasn't made it out
of the 20's in several days.
All of this left me
absolutely shocked to look out my office window in my
basement and see four irises popping up out of the ground by
about an inch. Even in the middle of winter (actually
only two weeks into it!) I'm reminded that spring is coming.
Soon blossoms will be out in full force and all of the
oldness will be replaced by something new and beautiful.
Of course all of this serves as a reminder of how God
makes us new as well. He takes something that it is
cold and dead and not that pretty and makes something
wonderful out of it. Praise God for His newness!
