A new thing
I Chronicles 12:32
“…Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do…”
Right Perception
Right Application
He is the God of a new thing
Ezra 3:7-8; 10 – 13
Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and gave food and drink and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar logs by sea from Lebanonto Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
8 In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the Lord…
10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the Lord, as prescribed by David king of Israel. 11 With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the Lord:
“He is good; his love toward Israel endures forever.”
And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.12 But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy. 13 No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.
Different than what they expected.
Dissimilar to what they experienced.
Reminded them of their past, mistakes, and brokenness.
Isaiah 43:18
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 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.
He is the God of a new thing.
Haggai 2:8
”The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,” says the Lord Almighty. “And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty.”
Embrace the season you are in, but don’t be paralyzed in it.
Expect a good, loving, and powerful God to work on your behalf.
Engage, and take steps into the “new” with a boldness in Christ and the peace of the Spirit.
Are you ready for the “new thing”?