from Nehemiah 1:1-4, 2:1-5, 4:12-20, 8:1-10
In Isaiah 43:18-19a we read, “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?” In Revelation 21:5, we hear the words of Jesus captured by John, “He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’” Since the beginning, God has been in the business and the process of taking that which is broken, and rebuilding it…making it new!
While there is pain in what is lost, in what we have to be willing to let go of or what is stripped away from us, it is absolutely possible to find and experience God’s goodness in the healing that takes place when we begin to allow God to rebuild!
w/ Vern Collins
from Nehemiah 1:1-2:6
Much of our time, energy, and attention are spent reacting to someone else’s urgent or to our own need to achieve or acquire or accomplish. We have deadlines to meet, meetings to make, assignments due, bills to pay and on top of all of that we set goals and have ideas for things we’d like to accomplish and overcome.
This is life, right? But is this really the “full life” Jesus came to offer (John 10:10)?
What if the picture we grabbed on to for who we could be come or what our situation or the situation of the world around us could look like isn’t born out of our own need for validation or comfort or security…what if it is born out of something that God plants in us?
What if God has a vision for you? A preferred future born out of His call to live life to bring Him glory and invite others into His story?
w/ Vern Collins
