A New Beginning for Us

This year New Year's Day fell on a Sunday.  And while it was nice having Christmas on a Sunday (nice to celebrate His birthday on His day) - this year it was absolutely amazing celebrating the New Year in church with our church family.

Our pastor preached today about the parable of the wineskins :

Luke 5:36-38

"He told them a proverb also: No one puts a patch from a new garment on an old garment; if he does, he will both tear the new one, and the patch from the new [one] will not match the old [garment].  And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the fresh wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined (destroyed).  But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins."

This really awakened something in my spirit - and Pastor's teaching only confirmed what God had already be speaking into my heart.  He is doing a new thing.  Amazing things.  But to receive the new things that He want to pour out, we must get rid of the old wineskin.  What He has done in the past was wonderful, but He has new things yet to be done.  By discarding the old, we are allowing Him to move - to make room for the new. 

There is nothing more that I desire from Him.  The new!  Oh, how I long for what is to come! 

Help me, Lord... to move on from where I am.  To discard the old and to take up the new in anticipation for all that you have planned.