Monday February 18, 2008

Text for the Day -- Isaiah 65:17-20
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For I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered
or come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice for ever
in what I am creating;
for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,
and its people as a delight.
I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
and delight in my people;
no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it,
or the cry of distress.
No more shall there be in it
an infant that lives but a few days,
or an old person who does not live out a lifetime;
for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,
and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.

Devotional
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How dynamic is your God? Throughout Scripture God is pictured as an
on-going creative God. The God of the Bible is not frozen in a
particular time. God is not a static picture. God is not locked in a
box, not even your box. God continues to do new things. God's
redemptive love creates marvelous expressions of redemptive action.
Are you looking for and at the new things God is doing in and around
you?

Prayer
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Help me be aware of the new grace-filled thing you are doing in my
life today Lord. Amen