Here we are moving into 2006 with a sense of freshness, newness, and the edge that comes with that. It felt as if we were sitting on the dull edge of the old as 2005 drew to a close, and now something is opening up that brings with it a sense of quiet excitment.
Many of us have known challenges and have had to change or adapt accordingly over the past 12 months or so. Change is ALWAYS for a purpose, even if we cant see or feel it at the time. Change brings it's own challenges and insecurities and the terrible possibility that we will be caught up in the tyranny of the familiar. Changes are made so that we can move out and into new pastures, but sometimes just when that should be happening, something familiar and comfortable out of the past shows up and traps us. It is not always immediately recognisable but can come in the form of an old habit, an old way of relating or living, that is so well-worn we just pick it up and put it on.
The edgy freshness of this new year indicates that even if we have picked up something old we should take it off and throw it away! We have to take our faltering steps alone and unencumbered into the new. Once we are established on the 'other side of the fence' so to speak, then we can begin to look for what might be added to our lives there.
The bible says that we are to first seek the Kingdom of Heaven and then everything else we need will be added to that. Guess that is a pretty good measure for whether we have perhaps added things that are more of this kingdom/earth than the other. Have we picked up things, or do we have the sense they have been giving to us as a gift and blessing?
Is it worth holding to the old, when suddenly we are facing the possibility of longed for dreams and visions coming to pass? Things that seemed too bold and outrageous at the time, but over the months we have edged further into God and therefore closer to them.
God bless us all in 2006!
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