My best days are when I begin them with God. I try not to face the day until I have been face-to-face with the Lord. I love to wake up early in the mornings to enjoy the stillness and quietness of scripture before the busyness of the day. It was in one of these early mornings that God showed me His perspective of new things. I could feel God’s excitement as the Holy Spirit brought scripture-after-scripture to my mind concerning the new things He loves to do in our lives.
The Lord reminded me that in salvation He had made me a new creation. No longer is my heart dead in sin and the guilt of it but is alive with Christ. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
Now, this newness of life is hardly a one-time experience. Scripture teaches that each morning we awaken to new mercies (note Lamentations 3:22-23). While we are sleeping, God is busy working and creating not only a new day, but new mercies to go along with it. Is God’s newness only once-a-day? No! According to 2 Corinthians 4:16, God is renewing our spirit day-by-day. Because He is constantly at work within me, I live in the power and energy that Paul describes in Colossians 1:29.
Lastly, the Lord reminded me that when we take our final breath and our eyes close in death, what seems like the end is just the beginning. What awaits us is the newness of eternal life. God is working every day toward our future, and Revelation 21:4-5 gives us a glimpse of it. “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. And he who was seated on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new’…”
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