As much as I love the fall and winter (I'm sure it has nothing to do with the football and basketball seasons), every spring in Arkansas is an absolute stunning display by a God who makes all things new.
Alicia and I have restored a couple of pieces of furniture in the not too distant years. We've even tackled some home renovation projects as well. As pleased as we were with the outcomes of these efforts, no professional and not even a layman would confuse our finished work with a new piece or a new house.
I can work to repair, replace, reconstitute, reconfigure, renovate, & rearrange. But I cannot renew. Humanly speaking, something can only be new once.
Not so with God.
With God, the old, worn out, used up, undesirable, and lifeless are not just made to appear better...they are made to be new.
new day
new seasons
new mercy's
new mind
new Spirit
new Life
Even death is no obstacle for a God who can make all things new. Consider Easter...
The answer to your question "can God... fix this problem? restore this marriage? patch this relationship? refurbish my_______?" is... sure He can. But his M.O. would say that He won't mess with fixing, restoring, patching, or refurbishing.
He prefers to just simply do what we can't: make it new.
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Speaking of NEW....
CBF has a college age ministry! So far it looks like a weekly HomeTeam under the leadership of Eddie and Kelli Airheart and a just-returned-from spring break trip. How is it's startup going? As with all things God...better than we could have asked or imagined!
A ministry to young men and women at this critical phase of life has been a need here for a long time and it's awesome to see God at work in a big way in this new ministry effort.
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