Some of us enjoy trying new things once in a while, while a good many of us rather not. New things come with risks and mysteries. Each time a thing comes our way fear and carefulness immediately comes to our mind and we proceed; at least many of us, some will just avoid. In the natural, sometimes new things do not seem to workout. God is a God of the new, he does no t reside in the old or in the past. In fact, his word says that his mercies are new every morning (La. 3:23). For God, the new is a part of his nature. I could imagine heaven where angels are always mesmerized with the constant change God creates. For us here in earth God introduces new things each day, so we should each day be ready to embrace something new.
1 Kings 13:8-10
8 And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest. 10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.
This young man of God understood this concept of “God anew”, he was instructed to not go back in his way through the way he came. After he finished his commission of claiming God’s disapproval towards the king of Judah; king Jeroboam, and his sinful actions, he need to leave but not the same way he came in, so he left. Our call to follow after what is new is a God thing. It is how we identify our selves with God, when we expect a new thing of God. We are to give God new things in our lives; sacrifice things within us that we never thought we should. The priest were to use new meat in their offering unto the Lord (Le. 23:16). David says that we should sing a new song unto him (Ps. 33;3, 40:3), a new praise should come out of our mouths, because that is what pleases him; a new thing. When we embark in our quest to search out God we find out that a new thing has already been there waiting for me (Ecc.1:10). God’s new thing has been prepared from long ago for us.
God does not take something that is old and repairs it he remakes it new. When our hearts are broken from the way of life, God does not modify or repairs it he gives us a new heart (Ez.36:26); He does not waste his time in repair. God makes all things new (Rev. 21:5). Like the scriptures of the new wine skins and the old wine in Mark 2:22, God does not use that which is old with the new. We too can not put old habits and practices with God’s new.