In Isaiah 43, God shares that He is doing a new thing and it is springing forth. The big question He challenges us with is, will we see it? …will you even be aware of it?

Its a prelude to something incredible, it’s a reality that God is doing something awesome. I’ve seen the context of this verse in scripture used for various circumstances, but today lets wrap it around life after signing up for this Jesus thing.

In every day life, there are things waiting for us to see. Ever wonder why there are some people out there that seem to always seem capture moments of opportunity and have extraordinary lives? And you don’t because you’ve convinced yourself that the universe is out of whack? Or that somehow God is playing a trick on you by doing everything you want to someone else that you know?

The rub here is that God is offering opportunity to us and offering us an extraordinary life, but many of us don’t have the eyes to see it! Because…we are so focused on living the lives of others.

God is saying to us…”I am doing a new thing…will you even be aware of it?”

When we sign up for this Jesus thing, it’s written that we are a new creation…we are new in Christ! If we’ve connected to God through Jesus, everything inside us is new…even if we don’t feel it right away. We are all made for a purpose and that extraordinary thing that God calls us to is to become what we already are — what He created us to be!

Have you ever tried to be someone you’re not?

Not sure about you, but it doesn’t really go that well!

It’s sometimes called envy. We see someone who’s life we want, someone’s who’s talent we want, fill in the blank _______, and we try to live someone else’s life instead of our own. I’ve heard it quoted; If you look at what you do not have in life, you don’t have anything. If you look at what you have in life, you have everything.

When we sign up for this Jesus thing, God does something new inside each and everyone of us and it takes some time for that to show through the rubble of our lives. God journey’s with us as we learn to live the inside out.

Until we start living like “the new has come” we will continue to live in a false reality, because the only reality that is true is the one God says about you! If you have entrusted your life the God who loves you then the new has come…so let it come.

The world will fight you on this, religion will fight you on this and yup even many churches. You know; get you to be good, and obey, sin less, fill in the blank _______ (not that these are bad). The problem is that religion doesn’t believe in transformation. The reason why religion tries to impose on you what you should be like and who you should be is because religion doesn’t believe that the new has come.

The struggle is not to become what you’re not…the struggle is to shake yourself loose of everything you were so that everything you actually are in Christ becomes you!

Whoever is a believer in Christ is a new creation. The old way of living has disappeared. A new way of living has come into existence. —2 Corinthians 5:17 (GW)

Yes, if you’re a jerk when you sign up for this Jesus thing, most likely will be a jerk right after. Of course it takes time for God to chisel you into His masterpiece, but many of us use this as an excuse to stop trusting God and stop living. Or 100% perfection.

Stop fighting it and begin to live in it! God will walk it out with you if you let Him.