The bible I’m presently using in my devotional time is chronological and one-year so I will have read through it from Jan.-Dec. It has been insightful to see just how many times things are repeated in scripture when they are aligned in their chronological pattern. Today’s alignment had a significant message for me.

I just started the New Testament a few days ago. Part of today’s reading included the message of putting new wine in old wine skins. If the new wine isn’t put into new wine skins, the new wine will burst the old skin. The books of Matthew, Mark and Luke all tell this same message so in today’s reading I get the message in triple dose. (I needed to get it this way)! Somehow I’ve always read this as an interesting fact. Today, however, I got the real message. In everything Earnie does he does it as a new creation. This is a truth I can hang onto whatever God has put before me in the day. This Christmas program I’m a part of doesn’t need to shut me down with fear; because the counseling session is going going to be a tough topic–I don’t need to be anxious (and so many more), I am a new creation with Christ Jesus living in me along with His Holy Spirit. I’m a new wine skin with new wine in me. II Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here.” Today I don’t just know this, I BELIEVE it and I can act upon it no matter what is before me in the day.

WOW! What a powerful message this is for me today! God is SO GOOD!