Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Reggie McNeal on God and New


"The people of God have been in captivity for years. Some long for the good old days; others grew up in captivity and never knew their parent´s world.


"In the middle of this, God speaks a word through Isaiah: Forget the former things. Don´t dwell in the past. See, I am doing a new thing (Isaiah 43:18-19).


"When God says he is doing a new thing, he says something important. God is always doing something new. A lot of people think of God as old and old-fashioned. This impacts everything we do. We think God likes old music. It affects our prayer life; we tell him what is going on. (If we spent more time listening in prayer instead of talking...maybe we are the ones that need to catch up with God!) God loves new.


"Creation was a new thing. Throughout the Bible, God does new things - including doing old things in new ways.


"When God does something new in our lives, it sometimes looks like a detour (e.g. crossing the Red Sea after leaving Egypt). The dry-ground crossing took a response of faith (step in before the water is stopped). Every generation needs its own dry-ground crossing. Faith does not have battery packs. Faith is a verb, not a noun. It is always an active response, not intellectual assent from the head up."


Very interesting :read Cool, piece.


Thanks Darryl.

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