All Things New

God really does make all things new. The only problem is that we are often unable to see how new we are becoming. We get discouraged by the lack of progress we are making on a human level and begin trying to make ourselves look good on the outside. We get more caught up in trying to look Christian than in "being" Christian.

I really hope that we can use the means available to us today (like this blog for example) to encourage each other to not merely act like Christians are supposed to act but much more to encourage toward obedience to the call of Christ, which was a call to go out and be what you could never be on your own. To do the impossible because the God of all Creation is alive in you.

Be encouraged to take the next 5 minutes to focus on where God is leading you. Not where you want to go, but what God is wanting to make your heart into. Maybe that means loving someone who you'd rather hate. Or skipping a TV show to talk with your kids. Whoever you are and whatever your poison, ask God to give you eyes to see His work in the next 5 minutes.



It's often hard to be dad and mom sometimes. There's constantly someone there sucking you dry. Kristine gets to spend more time with Jamie than I do so she could write a book about being sucked dry. At the church retreat though, I got to feel what it's like to have Jamie around 24 hrs a day and it was a wonderful experience. I was really challenged to ask God what His heart was for the next 5 minutes. Made me look at Jamie with new eyes... every 5 minutes. It was hard, but thinking like that really made me enjoy every second of our time together.

I cannot simply say I believe in the love of God and then keep it all to myself. Or even worse, select the people, whom I'm going to give it to.

Be encouraged, and be bold! If you are in Christ, you have been and are being made new.