New Things

New mercies, each returning day,

Hover around us while we pray;

New perils past, new sins forgiven,

New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.

If on our daily course of mind

Be set to hallow all we find,

New treasures still, of countless price,

God will provide for sacrifice.

John Keble

 

To those in Christ all things are not only new, but they are growing continually newer. In the old world and with the old man it is just the other way. Things are getting older until life gets to be an insufferable burden, a dreary round, a wretched repetition, and we see backs bent with nothing but pure sorrow, and heads white with none other sickness than vexation of spirit, and men brought to the grave because life was too wearisome to be supported any longer. But in the new world and with the new man the whole is reversed. Every day more of the old is weeded out, more of the new is coming in. Life is “fresher and freer” and fuller of promise. There are new discoveries of the Father’s love, new revelations of Christ’s grace, new experiences of the Spirit’s comfort. Life becomes interesting and grand beyond belief.

Robert W. Barbour.

Taken from a daily message from many minds