New

His mercies never fail. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:23 I was thumbing through one of my prayer journals and I came across something I don't remember writing. On the surface it's a simple statement, but its depth is infinite. It reads, "Each day I get older and each day He gets newer." Let's chew on that for a few minutes. I have been walking with Him since I had just turned twenty nine years old. I've gotten old, but He never has. He, in the wholeness of His being, really is new every morning. I keep discovering new facets of His character, faithfulness, and love. No matter how deep I go in discovering Him, I continue to see how I am only scratching His surface. Life can become so stale. This passing world can as well. He never does and He never will. One of the great promises of an eternity with Him is that it will be a continuous adventure of knowing Him. An eternity filled with His richness, a richness that will never run out. The Apostle Paul said that the world's hold upon him had vanished, just as his hold upon it had as well. Here, at nearly 76 years of age, I understand that more clearly than ever. One of the blessings of aging for the follower of Christ is the realization that the treasures of this world never satisfy. Not fully and not for long. We grow tired of them and put them aside, quickly intensifying our search for something that will. Not so with Him. Not so with Christ, and not so with the things of the Spirit. They are constantly fresh and new, and they never fail to satisfy. They never will. Ever. Some reading this may have no idea of what I'm speaking of. It's either because you have never known Him, or because you have never fully believed that He could be and is all that I say He is, and what really matters, that He is all He says that He is and promises to be. If that is where you find yourself today I, with all my heart, encourage you, plead with you, to step out into Him and discover that it is true. Have the Bread of His Life and the refreshing springs of His Living Water fresh and whole. Discover that they really are new every morning. New for you, and new for me. Blessings, Pastor O