What new thing is God doing in your life?  But more importantly, can you even perceive that God is doing anything in your life?  Isaiah 43:18-19 (the Old Testament lesson for March 25) reads as follows, "Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old.  I am about to do a new thing: now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?"(emphasis mine).

Text study this morning has got me thinking again.  It is amazing how that happens when people get together to study scripture.  I am not sure if this is what I am going to preach on, only time (and God) will tell, but what I am thinking is this:  What "new thing" is God doing in my life? In the congregation I serve? In the Church? In you?  I perceive some activity in my life but I am still trying to figure out what it means.  I perceive some activity at Salem and Belmont Lutheran Churches (the congregations I serve) but I am still trying to figure out what it means.  I know God is doing something new in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but I wonder if anyone knows what is going on.  And I know God is doing something in your life.

I believe it is all a matter of listening to God.  I think we get so caught up in ourselves that we don’t stop to recognize that God is up to something.  I know God is up to something amazing in mine and Connie’s lives but what?  I get so lost in emotion and selfishness that sometimes God’s voice gets lost.  I need to stop and listen.  I need to tune out the noise.  I need to perceive.

God IS up to something.  What "new thing" is God doing in you? -edh-