July 6: Renewed Daily By Mike Mosby, Children’s Ministries Children’s Church Coordinator

Reflection:

I am a morning person. I love being the first one up. The quiet newness of the morning makes me feel closer to God. Most mornings it is just me and God. I can reflect with God on the day before as I make plans for the current day. I feel renewed by these morning reflections with God and thought I would share how this verse in Isaiah reminds me of this daily renewal.

¹⁸ “Forget the former things;

    do not dwell on the past.

I am often awake early enough to see the sunrise. This is truly a blessing to me from God, as it reminds me that today is a beautiful new day. That no matter what happened the day before, this is the day that God has made for me to try again with the Lord by my side.

¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!

    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am encouraged that God does not want my failings from previous days to be a burden to me. I pray that I may not dwell on my mistakes, but instead learn from them so that I can do better next time. I thank God for his grace and remember what Matthew 5:16 says: Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

I am making a way in the wilderness

    and streams in the wasteland.

We depend on God every day to help us let go of our guilt and mistakes so that God can make a new light in us—a light that glorifies God here on earth so that others may see a small bit of God’s kingdom here on earth.

Closing Prayer:

Gracious and loving God, thank you for your grace and forgiveness. Thank you for freeing me from the darkness. You sent Jesus for us as a light that scattered the darkness of sin. Through him I have been made a new creation. Guide me, Lord, so that I might be a light that serves you faithfully.