Make me new!!

The Lord is making me new!  It is so funny to look back and see what God started with. I mean, He really had a big project in me. I am cursed with a haughtiness of always thinking I have it all figured out. It has been the curse of my flesh since birth. I should have realized this earlier in my life. My mother probably can’t even count the times she told me at age 13 that I did not know everything. I just thought she could benefit from my advice in raising my younger siblings. Unfortunately, I had no special revelation from the Lord, just a haughty little spirit that I have fought from the womb. I would justify by telling myself it wasn’t my fault God blessed me with above average intelligence. Time and time again, the Lord reveals to me what a bone head I am without him. The Lord has taken me on a transformation journey over the past few years. Little by little, I have decided I do less damage to the people in my life (not excluding myself) when I lean NOT on my own understanding (Proverbs 3:5-6). I daily fight my know-it-all heart. Sometimes I even try to tell my great amazing God how things would be so great my way. And somehow, He still wraps me up in His big understanding arms, and he holds me while I kick and scream that I didn’t get my way. And then, He gives me the desire to be more like Him. And in that desire, action is required of me. He makes me a new creature every day that I submit to His ways, obey His will, and rest in His perfect grace. Sometimes, I can look back from a little down the road and see what a disaster my idea of perfect would have been.  I just need to rest in His assurance and stop fighting even if I cannot see. Usually, I cannot see. But, always I can trust. I must choose it. God’s word tells us we are a new creation with him (2 Corinthians 5:17) and that His mercies are new every morning (Lamentation 3:23). I don’t know about you, but I need His compassion every morning that I wake up and go to battle with my flesh. Thank you Lord for making me new! So, what about you? Are you tired of trying it your way? Are you ready to be a whole new you: satisfied, full of rest, and joyful in disposition? Allow Him who created you the pleasure  of making you new, too! He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down,for these words are trustworthy and true.”(Revelation21:5)