happy spring.

this season never fails to do a number on my soul. every year i'm overwhelmed all over again with the sense of hope and expectancy that spring brings. especially this year, after a winter of crazy weather, the sunshine, blue skies, and blooming flowers are so refreshing.

spent some time this morning thinking on the countless promises of newness found in scripture. just thought i'd share a few of my favorites on here.

a new song. psalm 40.1-3: "i waited patiently for the lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. he drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. he put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our god. many will see and fear, and put their trust in the lord."

a new thing. isaiah 43.18-19: "remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. behold, i am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? i will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."

a new commandment. john 13.34: "a new commandment i give to you, that you love one another: just as i have loved you, you also are to love one another."

a new creation. 2 corinthians 5.17-18: "therefore, if anyone is in christ, he is a new creation. the old has passed away; behold, the new has come."

a new self. ephesians 4.23-24: "put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created after the likeness of god in true righteousness and holiness."

a new covenant. hebrews 9.15: "therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant."

praise god he's in the business of deconstructing and reconstructing, taking old and making new. happy spring.