December 30th - Let's Play!

Theme of the Day
New birth

Readings of the Day
Luke 4.21-44-So he continued proclaiming the message in the synagogues of Judea.
Ezekiel 46-47-Wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish, once these waters reach there. It will become fresh; and everything will live where the river goes...On the bank, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.
Isaiah 65-For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind.
2 Peter 3.8-13-But in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

God's Word of the Day
Wait and see; I will make all things new.

Story of the Day
As we walked along the river we passed some very old trees. Then we came up to a part of the river that had at one time been flooded out. You could tell the river had carved out something new in this area and then receded. The row of old trees had ended and a new area of growth was now taking place. There was new life and new growth in this flooded out region by the river. It was fresh and brightly lit by the sun. We had transitioned from the darkness and shade of the old to the light and freshness of new growth. The river had made the old new again. Once where the river was deep and narrow; now the river had become shallow and wide. Change in the river and change in life. Old to new and then new to old but life always. As we walked along the river we passed life in various forms but all wonderful life just the same.

Prayer of the Day
Lord, I know You make all things new. I see it in new birth. I see it in new life. I see it in the face and smile of a baby. I see it in the eyes of the elderly. All things new. New with the hope of new life. Old and young alike, you give life. Lord, I know You make all things new, and life in that hope and faith You have graciously given to both the old and the young.---Amen