Weather Report From Heaven: Sunny and bright, with an abundance of light and lots of singing and rejoicing.
Scripture- “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.”- Lamentations 3:22-23
Insight: In the book “Mere Christianity” C.S. Lewis once famously wrote “ the real problem of the Christian life comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All of your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.” Boy have I found this to be true! The battle truly begins all over each and every morning we wake up. Luckily, as it says above in the Scripture from Lamentations 3:22-23, the Lord is there to meet us every day and His mercies are new every morning. He never leaves us alone to fight the battles that we face each and every morning when we wake up. Each day is truly a new beginning, and we have a new and fresh chance to begin again, irrespective of what may have happened the day or night before. This is both the struggle and the opportunity of the human existence we are living in.
I thought it would be good to consider the optimism of new beginnings. We all need to keep our perspective on the hope of a better tomorrow, because the present is filled with so much uncertainty and difficult circumstances for many people. The whole point is we can’t go back and change what’s already happened in the past, we can only begin where we are and create a new beginning that leads to a better ending. CS Lewis also famously wrote “We can’t go back and change the beginning; but we can start where we are and change the ending.” Each day is a fresh opportunity and God always gives us chances for new beginnings. God is working in our lives individually and in the word collectively to bring about new and better outcomes by having His love pour through us as believers into a world that is marred by sin, hatred and anger. The old saying, we can catch more flies with a jar of honey than a jar of vinegar, still holds true today. God wants to do new things right now in my life and yours to create new beginnings which lead to better endings. We can’t go back and change the past; it has already been written. But we certainly can and must go forward and change the future, so the love of God overwhelms all of the sin that is marring our very existence on this earth as we speak.Prayer: Father God, help us to start where we are and tune into your love in order to start new beginnings in our lives and those you put us in contact with so we can change the endings of our sphere of influence. You tell us in Isaiah 43:19 “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Help us to be able to perceive how you are working in us and the world for good. We pray for discernment through the Holy Spirit and in the power of Jesus Christ. Amen
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