Newness....

Newness .....

Watching my second new grandchild this year, this past week has reminded me again of newness....everything for a newborn is new...from breathing air to moving limbs, to seeing light to feeling  touch...everything...everything ...crying for food, diapers, clothing, smelling, rooting for food, hugs, noises, talking, .....everything, just everything....

Can you imagine what it must have been like for Adam  and Eve?  Everything was new for them as well...the wonder of it all,..the wonder of God...the wonder of touch, feel, smells, talking, listening, the whole creation before you, yourself....they were adults and must have had a different perception than a newborn who has to learn and understand without words, or thoughts, or is it?

Now, we see new sights, new invention, new people, experience new locations, new languages, a plethora of new..are we in awe? One mildly impressed?  A new rainbow, a new day, a newly created snowflake .....am I in awe of God?

When we were foster parents, we parented children new to our household who came from a variety of backgrounds and situations...most not so good...they had to learn as did we the newness of one another, new expectations, new trust, new children...some of this was hard for all...newness again....

Marriage,children, new home, locations, friends...newness...

As a new believer, we are forever learning new attitudes, trusts, life, a new/old book-the Bible, ...putting behind us the old...learning newness from God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit...Being  aware of their life in ours...a newness that we have never experience....

Thank YOU for newness...the awe of new life, Your Word...forging forward Into the newness with YOU...everyday is new day...a new lesson...

2 Corinthians 5:17-18 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 

Psalm 33:3-9 Sing to him a new song;play skillfully, and shout for joy. For the word of the Lord is right and true;he is faithful in all he does. The Lord loves righteousness and justice;the earth is full of his unfailing love. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,their starry host by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea into jars;he puts the deep into storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord;let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be;he commanded, and it stood firm. 

Lamentations 3:23-24 They are new every morning;great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion;therefore I will wait for him.” 

Acts 5:20 “Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people all about this new life.”

Acts 8:15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 

Romans 7:6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. 

Ephesians 4:23-24 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

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