Ivy Sue and You

Spending time with family or old friends often times end in trips down memory lane. Many of the memories of the past are not always ones we are proud of or that we want to remember, a time when we were younger and less wise to the ways of the world. While talking of past events and how things used to be, I so many times thank God that I no longer live that type of lifestyle, that he delivered me from my waywardness and replaced, what I thought was a good life at the time, with far better blessings than I could have imagined. Looking back, the number of times he delivered me from destruction and despair are innumerable. Psalm 143:5-6 “I remember to think about the many things you did in years gone by. Then I lift my hands in prayer, because my soul is a desert, thirsty for water from you." Remembering those times is not a bad thing, it reminds me of my need for God and my need to trust in him to quench my dry thirsty soul.

Out with the old, in with the new. Many new things going on in the youth room, but to make way for the new things, the old things must go. Change can be hard sometimes, we get used to the way things are, we are comfortable, we have memories and sometimes struggle with letting go. We have had this furniture from the beginning and all our previous kids have sat on them. Letting the couches go kinda feels like letting them go all over again. In reality getting rid of these couches isn't getting rid of anyone but rather transforming our space into a new, fresh and inviting place for the current and future groups to come learn about Christ. We can get comfortable in our sin and old selfish ways, and find it hard to let go for fear of losing friends or having to give something up but Scripture speaks of a change Christ makes in us. 2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." Truly out with the old, in with the New! He will take the old but he will give us new, beautiful lives that will bring with it glory and blessings as a child of the King!