Discovering God's New

God, the only authentic innovator who creates what couldn’t happen without His

breath and power, offers us what we cannot find anywhere else. He gave us Jesus, the God-man on earth, to demonstrate how His new looks like, lives like, and loves like. Then God invited us to live His new life by asking Jesus to live in us to create new desires, impulses, and perspectives. It is a newness we cannot find anywhere else but "in Christ."

It means that God creates His new in us like He did at the beginning of the world. He creates what didn’t exist before. We don't try to do better; we are transformed by His creative work with a new appetite for everything Jesus shared at the cross. But before He can plant new seeds to take root and grow into the character of Christ in our life, everything that does not belong to God’s new must die.

 The good news about finding new in Christ is that it is ongoing. It is a whole-life process. That’s why God’s new is never a one-time honor. In salvation, we offer God free reign in our hearts. In exchange, God brings His abundant newness to replace self-made perspectives and values. We can’t simply think ourselves into His new. We don't goal-set into His new. We surrender ourselves to His new. If we take back control and return to our best efforts, we lose God’s new and live underneath the rich potential God's new can bring.

“In Christ.” That’s where we find all the new, all the hope, and all the growth.

These forty days allow us to evaluate life from the perspective of God’s new, not ours. We look for what God wants to be new in our lives, not what we want. As hard as it is to give up our own pursuit of circumstantial new, God’s new will serve us better, longer, and deeper.

And the best news is that God's new stays new. Nothing else you call new can do that!