Day 19 - Behold I Am Doing A New Thing

Read Isaiah 43:14-21

Behold, I am doing a new thing." The people of God understood that the God of Scripture is always    leading His people into the future, into new experiences, new challenges, new adventures; and He scolds them and is displeased with them when they insist on looking back and holding on to the past. "I am not back there," He says. "The glory has departed from there; I am ahead of you; follow Me into the future; catch the adventure!"  God wants to put a new song in our mouth and we are to sing a new song!  If we have experienced new birth then He has given us a new name.  He has made a new covenant because His mercies are new every morning! He has given us a new commandment to love one another.  He has given us new life and we are a new creation.  We have a new self because a new and living way has been opened for us.

Matthew 9:17  states  No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.  Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins.  If they do, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined.  No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

Jesus did not come to patch up an old system of religion, He didn’t come to fill our lives with rules and regulations.  He came to bring a new and living way to God.  He didn’t want us to package our faith like all other religion within clearly defined systems.  He said come to me and you will find rest for your souls, freedom from fear, death, forgiveness for sins, a clean slate, a fresh faith.

Jesus called us into a rule-free spirituality, which is very difficult for religious people to fathom.            Certainly, rule-less spirituality is only a constructive way to live if love is the guiding dynamic of our lives, and the key to Jesus’ message.  Simply remove rules and you are left with anarchy (1 John 3:4). 

Transcend rules with love and you are beginning to live like Jesus 

Bruxy Cavey in The End of Religion

What is the new thing that Jesus is doing in us?