NEW ...

Ok ... so I am intrigued with some things ...

#1 - Scouting the divine ... not just the book, but the idea of looking for God in the ordinary and extraordinary parts of life

#2 - Warmer weather and longer days ... and some sunshine on the side.  It's 7:15 pm and its still LIGHT outside.  HATE what the time change does to my body ... love what it does to my evenings!

#3 - My new camera.  I am a SLOW purchaser ... think about it for a long time ... toy with shopping around and checking reviews.  But I DID it ... finally joined the digital SLR world with a new rebel ... and did some playing around with it ... just a little!  Sadly, last week was so insane that it sat in a box unopened for FIVE days before I even got to open it up.  SOOOO, there's a lot of playing to be done.

With that in mind ... I did some of my own scouting the divine this afternoon with the word "new" in my heart.  I think it's a given that spring brings to mind all things NEW ... NEW weather, NEW sunshine, NEW clothes, NEW season, NEW life ... and the buds are just starting to peep.  Like the warm days ... kind of feel like its more of a teaser than the real thing in full bloom.  So before my week turns into working from sunup to sundown ... gonna share some of my favorite reminders of the NEW God brings ... NEW life, NEW desires, NEW heart, NEW song, NEW mercies, NEW energy, NEW season, NEW hope ... ahhhhhhhhhhh

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.

Is. 43:19

Let my teaching fall like rain

and my words descend like dew,

like showers on new grass,

like abundant rain on tender plants.

Dt. 32:2

 

 

He 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.  Ps. 40:3

 

 

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,

for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;

Great is your faithfulness.

I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion;

therefore I will wait for him."

Lam. 3:22-24

I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.  Ez. 11:19

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

2 Cor. 5:17