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Do a New Thing!
Daddy does a new thing for us by
daily opening new doors of opportunity and promise. Yes, Papa’s got a brand
new bag. Such open doors require ‘walking
through!’ Phil Barnhart said, "She
who doesn't answer when opportunity knocks spends the rest of her life knocking
opportunity." Why live in the
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Isaiah 43:19-21, 2 Corinthians 5:17
The Vietnamese father made a daylong visit
outside his village, returning the next day to find his village burned to the
ground. He found no remains of his family save a few small bones, which he
assumed were those of his young son. He despaired that he would never again see
the son he adored.
20 years
later a knock came upon his door in Los Angeles. The man was still extremely
bitter about his wartime experience. He was made even more so when the person
who was so persistently knocking cried out, "Open up, Father -- it is your
son." "I have no son,"
he screamed, yet the knocking persisted. After five more minutes of knocking,
the man, with finality in his voice, cried out, "My son is dead. Now go
away." The knocking ceased.
Indeed, the man’s son was dead but only to him.
A New Thing
New Year is a time for new beginnings and
resolutions. Our text exemplifies the kind of newness that we must trust our
Father for in the coming year. Although
the context is for the children of Israel, we may appropriate it for our lives
today. We are the children of Israel!
We must walk in the same promise of newness - being reborn over and over
again into the image of Messiah
2 Cor 5:17 So if anyone is in Messiah, there
is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become
new!
We must
consciously recall our newness daily:
Eph 4:24 Clothe yourselves with the new
self, created according to the likeness of Elohim in true righteousness and holiness.
Yahweh is
doing an ever-new thing in our lives; but just as the gift is not received
until taken, the "new thing" will pass us by if we do not perceive
its advent. HOW DO WE PERCEIVE? By believing that Yahweh cares for us. That he care for you. As if you were his own Son.
Did you know that Yahshua did not call God
“God”? The name "God" in Hebrew is the
name of a false god. We find that fact
in Isaiah 65:11. Formally, Yahshua
called God "Elohim" (Mark 15:34) or Yahweh ("Ia" or "Jah") in most bibles,
Revelation 19). But more personally,
Yahshua called him Father, and in intimacy called him "Abba" or “Dad”
(Mark 4:36). I know a pastor who began
every prayer with a whimsical "Dear Daddy." It seemed very strange, almost wrong at
first, but when Yahshua cried out "Abba," there was nothing whimsical
about it. He knew exactly who his daddy was.
We may also acknowledge our Elohim as “Abba”
according to St. Paul, who wrote these incredible words:
Rom 8:14. All who are guided by the Spirit
of Yah are sons of Yah; 15. for what you received was not the spirit of slavery
to bring you back into fear; you received the Spirit of adoption, enabling us
to cry out, "Abba, Father!" 16. The Spirit himself joins with our
spirit to bear witness that we are children of Yah.
We are
perfectly privileged to call Elohim “Father,” even “Daddy,” for we are the loving
children of his "unmerited goodwill." Abba cares and loves us "Just as we are without a
plea." We find the proof of this in the acts of his Son, whom he sent to
us for the sake of a deeper love than human nature can conceive.
1 Cor 11:24 "This is my body, broken
for you. This is my body that is given for you. Take. Eat. Do this in
remembrance of me."
Just as Yahshua triumphed over death, we
triumph over bad experiences by trusting in Daddy’s willingness to
provide. Trust is the highest form of
faith: it is the day-by-day belief that every need and every situation is under
His divine control, whether it appears so, in our finite ability to perceive,
or not. Looking back into the past also
helps us to trust. Reliving painful
memories or difficult situations increases our faith when we realize that we
triumphed when Dad intervened. Let us then proclaim for the future, "If
Yah be for me, who can be against me!"
Having relived our triumphs over hardship in the past, let us look now
straight into the light of the future as he "makes a way in the
wilderness" right before our eyes.
Yes, he has gone before you to clear the path. Can you perceive it?
Deer Hunting
Harvey is a very simple man with a simple
faith. We love him. Harvey and sons Ronnie and Donnie were
tracking a deer that one of them had wounded. Ronnie stayed behind at
one checkpoint while the others went on into a deep, sticker-filled, woods.
Soon they were lost and it was so dark that even the stars weren't
shining. Not a creature was heard, not
even a mouse. After trying to find their way out for an hour, they became
completely disoriented, then hopeless.
Expecting that they would be staying the
night in the woods. Harvey fell to his knees in the nettles and prayed,
"Father, make us a way out of this here woods." A few minutes later,
they heard a semi truck on route 27 going to the next town, they supposed
(Lagrange). They tried to follow the sound, but the woods were so thick that
they hadn't gone far before they lost it. Two other trucks came and went
without much progress.
Then they were encouraged when they saw a
flashlight way off in the distance beckoning them to come. They thought that it was Ronnie, the one who
had stayed behind. They followed the light and, after a tedious walk, found
their way out of the woods and onto a path that they knew. And just as they approached it, the light
went out. They didn’t find Ronnie
waiting there, either.
When Harvey and Donnie got home, they found
Ronnie in the garage working on his car. He had left the scene long before
and had not flashed the light that the hunters saw. Harvey began to glorify his heavenly Father
for leading him out of the wilderness of stickers, brambles and nettles. The Harvey went inside to attend to his
wounds.
Here’s
Johnny
Some people attending to wounds in this
parish and we all know it. We pray for
these people because we love them and want the highest and best for them. We want Daddy to be quick in his rescue
efforts. Johnny Carson, who is not known
for his faith in divine providence, did give us a clue to learning hope
on his last television show, when he commented on the death of his son.
"Life does what it’s supposed to do, then you move on." This is why Abba placed eyes on the front of
the head: to make it natural to move
on. And we as believers see a
resurrection kingdom out there, in which there will no longer be tears or
injustice or death. For Abba promised through the prophet Isaiah,
Isa 65:17 "I am about to create new
heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to
mind."
St. John saw
the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy and reported it in his vision:
1.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first
earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. … 3. and I heard a loud voice from the throne
saying, "Behold, the dwelling of Yah
Opportunity
and Promise
Daddy does a new thing for us by
daily opening new doors of opportunity and promise. Yes, Papa’s got a brand
new bag. Such open doors require ‘walking
through!’ Phil Barnhart said, "She
who doesn't answer when opportunity knocks spends the rest of her life knocking
opportunity." Why live in the
‘what might have been’ when there is so much yet to be?
May I relate a story that led to Fran
Tarkenton’s success as a professional football quarterback -- a story that
relates an opportunity that, if he had not taken it then, he would probably not
be known now? Fran was a third string
quarterback with University of Georgia in a game against the University of
Texas. Georgia
couldn't move the ball. It was third quarter and Georgia had achieved no
first downs. Georgia had the ball deep in her own territory. It was third down when Tarkenton went into
the game. The coach didn’t send him in;
nobody told him to go. Nobody tried to stop him, either. The first string
quarterback saw him coming and assumed the coach was replacing him with
a man who needed a little experience. Tarkenton took charge and, to everyone’s
surprise, led Georgia down the field for a touchdown. The rest is history. When
Fran stepped out, he became what he stepped out to be!
Resolve yourself to perceive Daddy’s
perfect will for you and yours each day of this New Year! Then when you perceive what he wants
you to do, resolve to take that forward step, no matter who is around to
say “no.” The goal line is just a few
short yards downfield, you have the ball and it’s first down. Your Father reminds you, “Behold, I do a
new thing! Can you perceive it?” To which you may now boldly respond,
"Great
is thy faithfulness, O Yah. my Father,
Thou
changest not, thy compassions they fail not;
Great
is thy faithfulness; Great is thy faithfulness;
All I
have needed thy hand hath provided;
Jackson
Snyder, January 3, 1993 |
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