Seasons

Ephesians 4:20 (The Message)

^20-24But that's no life for you. You learned Christ! My assumption is that you have paid careful attention to him, been well instructed in the truth precisely as we have it in Jesus. Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything—and I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life—a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you.

I just love new starts: new calendar pages, new notebooks, new flower beds waiting for color, new grade books. They give me a sense that the old has gone and now I can start over, better this time.

I like this verse and the way it is written in this version. I like how God has gotten rid of the old, rotten ugly parts of my life and made them new...I just need to live that way.

Seasons remind me of living fresh and new. I get into habits, some good and some bad, but seasons shake up those habits and force me to live differently.

Seasons in life remind me that as a door shuts another opens and with it the possibility of newness!

Oh, may I be a woman who embraces my new life in Christ and lives in that newness...forgetting the past and pressing on to the future!