Ushering in Newness

Spring is upon us. With the arrival of spring there is also the ushering in of newness. We anticipate its arrival and our souls long for its presence. We plan- often following through with these hastily made commitments- to clean out our closets, sort the massive stack of papers on the kitchen counter, and turn the earth in the garden. We work extra hard to perfect the appearance that we have welcomed the arrival of change.

But, quite often, the things we have purged out of the closets just end up in another pile hidden within the house, the papers become neatly stacked and placed into a drawer, and the garden is turned but all the debris that was scattered on top of the dirt is now scattered on the bottom of the bed. We work extra hard to perfect the appearance that we have transformed and changed the space around us.

But God likes to accomplish tasks a little differently than we do. He begins in the deep recesses of the closet and slowly works His way forward never overlooking a single item, sorts the papers one by one from the bottom up (since the papers at the bottom of the stack were there long before the ones on top), and He doesn’t just turn the earth, but brings forth sweet growth from deep below where the human eye can’t see. He works extra hard to prove the appearance that we have welcomed the arrival of change, and that we are being transformed by changing the space within us.

Isaiah 43:19, See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

Father, when we can’t see what you are doing, or understand the process in which you work, help us to find peace in your timing and trust you to put a little spring in our step. Amen.

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