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- There’s nothing new on this earth. Year after year it’s the same old thing. Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”? Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story. Nobody remembers what happened yesterday. And the things that will happen tomorrow? Nobody’ll remember them either. Don’t count on being remembered.
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“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. The wild ...
Most Relevant Verses. Leviticus 26:10. Verse Concepts. You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new. Leviticus 25:22. Verse Concepts. When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in. 1 Chronicles 4:22.
Everything’s boring, utterly boring— no one can find any meaning in it. Boring to the eye, boring to the ear. What was will be again, what happened will happen again. There’s nothing new on this earth. Year after year it’s the same old thing. Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”? Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story.
King James Version. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
- What New Thing Is God Doing in Isaiah 43?
- How Does 'Behold I Am Doing A New Thing' Tie Into The Christmas Story?
- Why Was The First Christmas Such A Surprise to Everyone Who Experienced It?
- How Does 'Behold I Am Doing A New Thing' Tie Into Renewing Creation?
- How Can We Take Hope from 'Behold I Am Doing A New Thing' This New Year?
- A Prayer to Hope in What God Is Doing
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“See the former things have taken place, and the new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.” Isaiah 42:9NIV The book of Isaiah, full of Messianic prophecy, is the most cited Old Testament book in the New Testament (Moody). Isaiah’s portrayal of a holy God who keeps His promises helped “remind the people of God that ...
“A voice of one calling: ‘In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.” Isaiah 40:3NIV A baby born to a virgin was a new thing. Angels breaking through the sky at His birth, an astonishingly bright star leading wise men and shepherds to a baby’s humble birth …new things! The new things God orche...
The first Christmas story was a surprise because God’s people were expecting the King of Kings, not Jesus. He was born humbly in a manger and grew up among the people. Surely God’s chosen king, meant to rescue them, would look like the kings they had longed for and expected since the days of King Saul. They never needed a king; they needed God, Him...
“Now to him who is able to establish you by my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all nations might believe and obey him- to the only wise God be glory forever thro...
This year has been challenging, full of suffering and loss for many around the world. Anything and anyone we’ve put our hope in on this planet has surely proved futile and undependable. Our hope was never meant to be in anything or anyone on this earth, but God alone. Through Christ, and what He accomplished on earth that began the first Christmas ...
Father, we know the world spins on Your omnipotent will, and You are always working. We can only see what we currently experience. Our plans are futile and our efforts limited. But God, You are always doing a new thing, providing for us through Living Water. When we are faced with dire circumstances and long-suffering seasons, we need You to remind...
The Moody Bible Commentary. Copyright 2014. The NIV Study Bible. Copyright 1995. Photo credit: ©GettyImages/kieferpix Meg writes about everyday life within the love of Christ at megbucher.com. She is the author of “Friends with Everyone, Friendship within the Love of Christ,” “Surface, Unlocking the Gift of Sensitivity,” “Glory Up, The Everyday Pur...
The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! New King James Version. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. New Living Translation. 17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
The old things have gone; everything is made new! 2 Corinthians 5:17 — American Standard Version (ASV) 17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
