New

New embodies the concept of perfection. We expect that when receiving an order by mail. We expect it when purchasing any merchandise. Idealistically we expect it in a new relationship, job, move to another location, etc. Those are our expectations. When the new wears off, we see flaws in people, merchandise and relationships. Some move on to the next "new" experience. You see that in the movie The Perfect Man with Heather Lockyear, Hillary Duff and Chris Noth. The single mom is always packing and moving when things go sour. Finally she comes to a place of reality.

Yes, reality dictates that new things break and people are not perfect. There's a place of acceptance and unconditional love that holds on to relationships when the cracks and stresses appear.

Spiritually, the opposite happens in Christ. We come to Him admitting our faults and weaknesses, our independent spirit unyielding to His Perfect Direction and Will, and our full knowledge that we can't measure up no matter how hard we try. We place trust in those nail-scarred hands, and we are "new." We aren't perfect, it's true. In Lamentations 3:22-23 it says, "The Lord's loving kindnesses indeed never cease for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Here's a place where each "new" day, His love is new. We became new when we asked Him into our life. We keep "new" each time we repeat repentance(sorry for sin) and ask for cleansing. We are renewed every day.

Identity in Christ: We are a new creation. Each day we are new. Someday we will have a new body, a resurrected body, that will never wear out or decay. Wow!!! Quite the opposite of the way the natural world operates.