The New that Never Gets Old.

New beginnings, new chances, new adventures... it's time for a new year.  In our culture, we love new.  A new item comes out and we HAVE to have it (I mean there are lines for the new iPhone...).  New cars, new people, new significant other, new place, we are always looking for that new "new". 

As singles, it's easy to get the new adventures.  We have the freedom to look for a new special someone, new adventure, new job, and even a new location.  But then comes that feeling for something new that we can't always get so easily, the wanting for a spouse and even children.  We see our friends moving to that stage in life, and instead of loving the fact that we can go on vacation on the drop of a dime, we start wanting that companionship and responsibility of taking care of someone else.  That's a new that is (sometimes) out of our reach. 

For some of us that new feeling is a time for, well, something new.  It really could be time for a new job, location, or even to try a new way to meet that someone special.  For others, it's a feeling that we think we need to fill, but really just to overcome.  Either way, that new won't come immediately, which is when a new feeling comes, a feeling of defeat.  You start to feel complacent and frustrated.  You look to fill that feeling with other new stuff.  My favorite is clothes, I mean new clothes makes everything better?!  But then a day later the frustrated feelings are back and we're back to square one.

There is one truth that will help with all of it, God makes all things new.  Lamentations 3:22-23 says, "Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassion fail not.  They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness." 

God already gives us the new slate, the new adventure, every day He makes us new.  His newness (I know it's not a word, but you know what I mean) is the only "new" that will fill the desire we feel.  He already makes us new every day, we just have to let Him.  The best part of it all?  His new never gets old. 

Happy NEW Year Folks!