New Year…

New Year…1-1-26

I am not a New Year party person. I am definitely am an early-to-bed, early-to-rise girl. Which is ironic because most of my family and friends are the opposite including my grandson.

The night before I left for South Texas with my niece, my grandson spent the night. As I’ve discussed before, he has a whole routine which sometimes lasts for at least an hour. This night, he had a very loose tooth. The new tooth pushing out the old. He wiggled and wiggled, pushed and pulled until he announced it was only held by a stand. The old tooth holding on to anything it could to stay in place.

As I was reading my Bible last night, this verse stood out in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”. Just like my grandson’s tooth, we sometimes cling and hold to whatever we can to keep the parts of our life that we don’t want to let go of. There are parts that we water and tend that connect us to the old. God doesn’t want that for us. He wants us to fully submit, release all that tethers us to the old, and be that new creation in Him. He wants us to be fully committed to Him. Isaiah 43:18-19, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.“

When we let go of the old, just as my grandson plucked the old tooth, we make a way for the new. The wonderful new things that God has for our lives. What a blessing for each day that God’s mercies are new every morning. He has made in me a new creation with a new heart. I don’t need a new calendar, a new year, or a new day, I just need God who makes my desert beautiful.