SOMETHING NEW IN THE LORD
WHO could have predicted
The last year? Who could have predicted
This COVID pandemic=and what
It would bring=in this last year?
Who CAN PREDICT=what is
Coming in this next year?=Perhaps
For some of us=it could be our
Last year=our last LENT
One never knows
What this world=is going to bring
“The kingdom of God
Is at hand=
Repent and believe
In the gospel” Mark 1:15
We should all be PRAYING
To God and to Jesus=EVERY DAY
We should be keeping
Our relationship with the Lord
Fresh and NEW every day
We ALL are
On a JOURNEY
That one day will end=
We need to=STAY NEW
In the Lord
There is ALWAYS
SOMETHING NEW=in the Lord
And it is
HIS LOVE for us
So today=RENEW and believe
In the gospel=BELIEVE
The kingdom of God
Is at hand
Believe HIS LOVE
His ever changing kingdom=
Yet=CONSTANT LOVE
Is here for you
SOMETHING NEW in the Lord=
His love for us=is
The CORE of his mission
“See I will create=NEW heavens=
And a new earth
The former things
Will not be remembered-
Nor will they come to mind” Isaiah 65:17
“Therefore-if anyone-is in Christ=
THE NEW CREATION=has come
The old has gone-the NEW is here” 2 Corinthians 5:17
This world is CONSTANTLY CHANGING=
There is SOMETHING NEW
Coming every day
But we are new people IN CHRIST=
New people every day
Because this world
Is never the same
From day to day
After the flood=
God entered a NEW COVENANT
With Noah and all creation
And we are made
NEW again=IN CHRIST
In our Baptism
We are made clean=
And new in Christ=
SOMETHING NEW IN THE LORD
“Yet I am writing you
A NEW command
Its truth=is seen
In him=and in you
Because the darkness is passing
And the true light
Is already shining” 1 John 2:8
Jesus' love for you is CONSTANT=
And yet you are SOMETHING NEW=
Every day=in the Lord
Ps In the names of Jesus=and the Father's CONSTANT=yet always NEW LOVE
Robert P. Wallman
2-18-2021
Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Steve Pable
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