Watchman Nee said…..”Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.”
We were busy last week preparing for special guests to visit our home. We were excited because not only were Mitch’s parents arriving soon, but they were bringing with them old furniture dated past 1945. However since this was their first visit to our new home we were diligent and dutiful as we anticipated their arrival.
Upon their arrival, they were tired yet excited to see where their son lived. Shortly after a tour of our home, I prepared the table for our first meal together. We enjoyed our meal and sat around talking for a while before Mitch’s dad pronounced, “I am ready to unload that trailer and truck!” So we all cleared the table and the process began of unloading.
Mitch and I were excited to accept the dining table, chairs, buffet and hutch! It was part of Mitch’s choice from a long list of items his siblings would eventually inherit. The furniture came from his grandfather and the sentimental value is important to Mitch. And because of Mitch’s parents down-sizing we had the pleasure to receive the furniture from his parents.
Needless to say after shuffling our furniture around we found just the positions the old furniture would proudly stand! Although the furniture dated past 1945 and to some people it was old, but to us it is new!
Scripture teaches us that the old can be made new. How are you doing today? This morning I sat in one of those old chairs at that old table and prayed. I was thankful to God that what seemed old was new to me and I was thankful to be given a gift of furniture with history. God’s love and his gift is everlasting– it is life in Him!
Tired of the old? Find the new- some people say God’s ways are old-fashioned or vintage; but they are the ways that make old things–NEW!
2 Corinthians 5:16-18
16-“So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17-Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18-All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation….”
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