Looking For a New Beginning?

“Congratulations, Graduate!  It’s a New Beginning”, said a picture frame in the store…

“Think of all the amazing adventures ahead…” said another…

“Amazing Adventures”, “New Beginning”.  I left the store a little jealous of graduates with a lifetime of adventures ahead of them.

When I started the car, the radio came on. I didn’t recognize the station.

“And now.” said the announcer, “a moment of inspiration from the “Upper Room”

“What station is that?” I wondered.

“Do you regret the past?” asked the voice on the radio.  “Do you wish you could change it?

“If you do, know that God says, “‘It will be difficult because, I am not there.   My name is not ‘I was’  I AM’.”

God said to Moses, “I am who I am. And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’  Exodus 3:14

“Do you fear the future?” continued the radio voice.  “It will be difficult for you because God has said, ‘I am not there. My name is not ‘I Will Be’.  I Am”.

… do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34,

Could there be a link between the words on the picture frames and the words on the radio?

Could God be saying, “surrender your past…”

“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.  ¹⁹ Behold, I am doing a new thing; Isaiah 43:18-19

Could He be saying, “Don’t worry about your future…”

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.  1 Peter 5:7

Could He be saying the path to a new beginning is always available here, now, with Him?

I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11

Dear God, Thank You that You are the God of Now.  Thank you that you and you alone can say, ‘I Am’. Let us lay aside our past and our future, and start a new beginning. Here, now, with You.