Starting Fresh

Today at LifeGate, we opened the doors to our new location at Veteran Park Elementary, at least in a public grand opening service.  It was a simple reminder of what we are doing.  At the close of the message, my good friend Ashley gave those there the opportunity to make a fresh start with Jesus.  At least 6 hands went up.

How big was the party?  The bible tells us over 1 lost person angels in heaven celebrate, so how big was it today with six lives transformed by God's loving grace.

This runs in perpendicular with the rest of my life.  While our church is starting fresh in a new location, lives today are starting fresh with Jesus, my life seems to continue down the same road.  Still in the same job, despite my best efforts to make a improvement and move up.  Still in the same financial battle of trying to move the needle on youthful decisions of taking on debt.  Still, still and still...at least that is how it feels.

The one thing I do remember from high school geometry class is this: two lines running perpendicular to one another eventually intersect.  What this means is that my road full of stills will eventually collide with God's road of new things.  The prophet Isaiah jotted down these words from God - "see I am doing a new thing, now it springs up. Do you not perceive it?"  My hope is at that intersection of my still and God's new is something unlike I have ever known.  Isaiah goes on to say: "I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland."

A lot of us live in the still...still struggling to make ends meet, still fighting and discontent in a marriage, still working the same passionless job.  My hope for you is that road intersects with God's pathway of new.  At that connection is the potential for discovery of fresh start God is preparing for you.