Hosanna Restoration Church

The Bible says that I am a new creation. The things I knew have changed. I look at things in a new way. God’s love is new every morning. He has new ideas for my life everyday. Although Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us there is nothing new under the sun, that does not mean that we know everything. Truly, there is nothing that God has not thought of, but that does not mean that we have experienced everything God knows.

Forgive me for playing with the words new and knew in various forms, but the fact is, that often times it the very things we think we know that prevent us from experiencing the new things God has for us. Some people are kept from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ simply because of religious teachings that have been passed on and on without anyone daring to think God might have something new. This same sort of thinking keeps others from experiencing and manifesting the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Any time that we think we know something of the Word of God so well that we refuse to believe God might be able to show us something new, we are being robbed by the very things we knew before. I really do not want what I knew yesterday to keep me from experiencing the new things God has for me, but I am certain that I often do.

This scripture clearly says that old things have passed away and that all things have become new, but lots of people still dwell in the past. Christians sit around and try to figure out what it is that is holding them back and the very thing that is holding them back is the fact that they won’t let old things pass away. Some things just are not worth holding on to. Why not just believe God that everything is new now?

It is like someone holding tightly to a worn out pair of shoes that don’t even fit with one hand, while they hold a coupon good for a new pair of shoes of their choice in the other hand. The truth is, what we were before we came to Christ, just does not fit our new creation.

You may be thinking that is easy for me to say, but I don’t know what you know. You are right, I do not know what you know, but God does. And I know that if He says He makes all things new, then He does make all things new. No matter what is going on in our lives, He can make it new and better.

As we recently looked at how leaders like Asa had it going good and then lost it I believe the thing that brought them to that point is losing sight of the new things God had in mind for them. We cannot be content to simply maintain, we must increase our excitement for the things of God. If we get stuck in a rut with what we know, based on what we knew, we will never believe for anything new and that gets really old. Behold! He makes all things new. Expect it!