Close The Gilded Gate
New things are hard to navigate and stretch our faith. There is a dangerous pathway with a gilded gate, and until this gate is closed by you, it will try to draw and distract you off the path of the new. This gate is the gate of the path of familiarity. The gate of familiarity is a beautiful and eye-catching gate because it is trying to lure you back into the safety of what was and has been. The deceptiveness of this gate lies in the fact that the path of familiarity leads you to repeat the cycle or cycles you have already been in.
When new things are infiltrated by old things, new things become the old things that infiltrated them. Familiarity breeds complacency; it keeps you stagnant. Familiarity, if left unchecked, will become idolatry of the past; you must close this gilded gate!
God says to you today, “I am doing a new thing!”
Choose to trust Him. Trust His way over your way. Trust Him as Truth Himself over your “truth.” Choose God’s resurrection life over your self-life. Invite The Lord to actually be Lord and have His will and way in you. Choose to step into the new of God knowing that He is right there with you and is faithful to lead and guide you. Choose to risk yourself to receive all of Him. Close the gate of familiarity. When you choose Him over the past...Oh, the places you will go! You will be amazed at just how good God is at being God! When you choose to fully surrender to His ways, get ready to move into new things that are far above and beyond what you could ask or think!
Isaiah 42:6-9 (NASB), “I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, and I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations, to open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon and those who dwell in darkness from the prison. I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, nor My praise to idols. Behold, the former things have come to pass, now I declare new things; before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
Isaiah 43:18-19 (NASB), “Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder things of the past. Behold, I am going to do something new, now it will spring up; will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.”
