Newness

Thats a fun word to say. Say it with me, NEWNESS. Now say it out loud. Newness! There are times in our lives where we count. Your child is not listening to you, so you count. Someone is making you very angry, so you count before you bite their head off. We teach our children to count at a very early age. We count how many days until the next birthday. Count down until the next vacation. Count movies, music downloads, app downloads, phone signal, text messages, things we are involved in at church, the number of deals made, houses bought or sold, animals we have, acres of land, toys we have, income and any other way of MEASURING. We constantly are measuring. Measure the number of breathes you have, steps taken, lives interacted with, contacts made, blessing accepted, blessings given. The list should be endless, but we don't normally look at the positive. We are always so concerned about the glass being half empty. "You got more than me." Remember the master came back to take an account of his talents he left with his servants. Did he find the glass half empty. Newness, every day. You can take newness at every breathe. Faith without works is dead. That means you can believe your whole life for newness but if you never act on what God has called you to do, it will never come. Outloud one more time NEWNESS today!