New

Ron Writes

New year. New month. New week. New day. We like things that are new. The freshness, the potential, the hope for a new beginning. Today is all we have. It’s a gift from God. That’s why we call it the “present.” The past is gone. Tomorrow is only a hope. Today is all we have and it’s brand new. God’s love and compassion are new every morning (Lam. 3:22-23). Everyday is a new beginning.

So much of the Christian life is described as “new.”

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature….new things have come” (2 Cor. 5:17). “Therefore, we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:17). We have a new life. We are born again. We have a new self (Col. 3:10). We have a new identity “in Christ.” “Our inner man is being renewed day by day” (2 Cor. 4:16). You are being “renewed in the spirit of your mind” (Eph. 4:23). We are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds (Rom. 12:2).

We have a new covenant (Heb. 8:8). God is doing a new thing (Isa. 43:19). The new is not the old. It’s fresh. We have a new commandment, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another” (Jn. 13:34).

Our future is described as “new”. “Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth…. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem” (Rev. 21:1, 2). In fact, God says, “I am making everything new” (Rev. 21:5)! We will get a new name (Rev. 2:17). “And they sang a new song before the throne” (Rev. 14:3).

Don’t ever let your relationship with God grow old. Every day you begin with a new, fresh, clean slate.