I don’t know about you, but when I have tried to do things
before I was ready, or even before others were ready for it, it has felt like
all my plans burst, my life was torn into pieces and all the ugliness of the
situation spilled onto others around me. See I was trying to do a new thing, push a new
idea, or do something new and I was not new.
The bible says that God makes all things new. The word makes
is in the active tense. It is the “act of making”. Everything in your Spirit man is immediately
made new when you truly accept Jesus in your heart. But true conversion of ALL of your mind, will
& emotions takes time. Over time
your mind & thinking becomes renewed, you learn how to keep your emotions
in check, and you surrender your will to God’s will for your life. This is an ongoing process that keeps your
life growing, making things fresh and new from day to day.
BUT, when we get ahead of God, when we become zealous for
things that are not for this time, and when we are trying to prove something,
we can potentially try to do a new thing with an old mindset, old intentions,
and old willful emotions. When our old
tries to do the new, it can get messy. The Word of God says it best this way:
Matthew 917 Neither
is new wine put in old wineskins; for if it is, the skins burst and are torn
in pieces, and the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined. But new wine is
put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved. (AMP)
What God does in our lives, He wants to last and bear
fruit. He wants our blessing to be a
blessing. He wants how we have been
comforted to allow us to comfort others.
He wants us to show that love He has shown us to others. The Lord wants our freshness in His Spirit to
be preserved so it can last…..so it can be spread.
Wait on God to change you.
Wait on God to make you new. Only
He knows your process. His work in you
will be perfect and complete. Messy
lives can burst and spill onto others, and also tear hearts to pieces. Don’t be messy, wait on God’s timing, it is
always perfect. His love will make all
things new in your life at just the right time.
It might not feel like it, but
it is what it is, you will see if you wait.
James 14
But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full
play and do a
thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully
developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing. (AMP)
Philippians 16 And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work
in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His
return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing
it to full completion in you. (AMP)
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