Happy New Year

I woke up this morning and said "Happy New Year Lord!"  Then I thought to myself, God is outside of time, so does He really think in terms of a new year? Silly I know, but this is a little glimpse into the mind of me!  LOL  The Lord did lead me down another path though.  New.  God likes new.  And some Bible verses started to come to mind.  I then decided to look up the word NEW in the concordance and came up with some verses for us to think about, verses sharing God's love for newness.

Psalm 40:33   He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord.

Psalm 96:1   Sing a new song to the Lord!  Let the whole earth sing to the Lord!

Isaiah 43:19  For I am about to do something new.  See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?  I will make a pathway through the wilderness.  I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.

Isaiah 48:66 You have heard my predictions and seen them fulfilled, but you refuse to admit it.  Now I will tell you new things, secrets you have not yet heard.

Isaiah 65:17  Look!  I am creating a new heavens and a new earth, and no one will even think about the old ones anymore.

Jeremiah 31:31  “The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.

Ezekiel 36:26  And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you.  I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart.  

Matthew 9:17  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins.  For the old skins would burst from the pressure, spilling the wine and ruining the skins.  New wine is stored in new wineskins so that both are preserved. 

Matthew 26:28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.  

2 Corinthians 5:17  This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.  The old life is gone, the new has begun.  

Ephesians 4:24  Put on your new nature, created to be like God--righteous and holy.

Hebrews 8:13  When God speaks of a "new" covenant, it means He made the first one obsolete.  It is now out of date and will soon disappear.  

Hebrews 9:15  That is why He is the one who mediates a new covenant between God and the people, so that all who are called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them.  For Christ died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant.  

Revelation 3:12  All who are victorious will become pillars in the temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it.  And I will write on them the name of my God, and they will be citizens in the city of My God--the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from My God.  And I will also write on them My new name.  

Revelation 21:5  And the one sitting on the throne said, "Look, I am making everything new!  And then He said to me, "Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true."

New names, new character, new plans, new covenant, new hearts and new spirits. God makes all things new.  Seems to me He likes this idea of new. So Happy New Year everyone.  God has new things in store for all of us.  Perhaps it's a new way of seeing or a new sense of His presence and purpose during the same old grind. And I pray that in all these things, good and bad, we will grow closer to Him, more like Jesus, and meet them with His grace, strength and perception.  He is with us.  God bless you all in this new year.