What God is Doing that is New

I am always amazed when I consider information in the Bible which explains God’s desire to do something new for us, with us, or through us.  For example:

• God wants us to have “new life” (Romans 6:4).
• When we die to our sins we can “serve in the new way of the Spirit” (Romans 7:6).
• Communion is a reminder of a “new covenant” in His blood (I Corinthians 11:25)
• In Christ we are a “new creation” (II Corinthians 5:17).
• In Christ we are to “put on the new self” (Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10).
• Christ is “the mediator of a new covenant” between God and man (Hebrews 9:15).
• We can come boldly before God in prayer because of the “new and living way opened for us” through what Jesus did on the cross (Hebrews 10:20).
• Through Christ we have “new birth” (I Peter 1:3).
• When speaking about Israel, God said, “See I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?  I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19).

Let me ask, what new thing is God doing in your life?  What do you sense is the “new thing” that God is doing in your church?  What new thing is God doing in your family?  What praise is on your lips to God for the new thing that He is doing for you, for your church or for your family?  Maybe, if we take time to carefully look at and acknowledge the things that God is doing in our lives, each of us can say that he will put “A new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.  Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord” (Isaiah 40:3). That would be a wonderful testimony of God’s grace and a great encouragement to others around us.