New Year (1)
Happy New Year!
New! Fresh and unspoilt. A new leaf. A new resolution.
We
love the sense of newness of something fresh out of the packet, never touched
by another consumer. And a new year
has a chance of not getting soiled and damaged like the last one.
This is the consumer’s definition of ‘new’ – the pristine
virginity, that once it is spoiled, it is gone forever.
But God has spoken of a newness for the future. When
confronting people who’s lives and society are completely screwed-up, God says,
‘Look, I am doing a new thing’. When it comes to ‘God’ newness is not a
transient thing that disappears when the packet is opened, it is a promise of
new growth, regeneration, transforming what is broken into something that is
right – a better kind of newness altogether.
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