Thoughts from our Pastor for January 2025
New Year, New Things
Christmas is now in the rearview mirror. We’ve been blessed with the new things we received. New clothes, new toys and new memories.
If only it were that easy as we try to have other new things in our life. Living in a house that is over 100 years old, we have a list of things that we would like to make new. It’s not written down, but we try to save enough to pay for the items on our list. When we have saved enough, or think we have saved enough, or have a plan for paying for an item, it will eventually get done.
I say “eventually” because, more times than not, something else pops up demanding immediate attention. Our resources are then used to fix the squeaky wheel. That’s just life as we know it. I’m sure most, if not all of you, know exactly what I’m saying.
God has a list of things that He is making new. He shares about His list with the Apostle John, in Revelation 21:5-7, “Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’ And He said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be My son’.”
God is making “all things new.” New meaning, “the whole.” Everything, everything is being made new. These are not my words or the words of John. They are the words of “him who sat on the throne.” He speaks to John, then instructs him to “Write, for these words are true (noting concealed” and faithful (trustworthy, trustful).”
I would be able to make more things new at my house, if I took out a second mortgage. God is making all things new, and He has the budget to get it done.
The timetable? Only He knows, but we can put our trust in the One who speaks these true and faithful words. He always keeps His word. Our task is to overcome. Literally “to conquer.” We all like to win. How do we win? By satisfying our spiritual thirst at His fountain. “The fountain of the water of life.”
Overcoming is the call in the letters written to each of the seven churches in the book of Revelations. It must be the goal of every believer. We overcome by thirsting after righteousness and drinking God’s fountain freely.
Everyone who overcomes will inherit. What will we inherit? “All Things.” All the things made new of God. No secondhand, no new old stock still in the box. NEW! Original custom made things made by the hand of God Himself.
The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to renew our commitment to being an overcomer. As an overcomer you are an heir of everything God makes new.
Follow the Apostle Paul who writes in Philippians 3: 13-14(NKJV), “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
I don’t know what all of God’s new things will look like. I invite you to join with me and keep pressing on toward the prize. Be an overcomer!
Pastor Rick Borgman
Christmas is now in the rearview mirror. We’ve been blessed with the new things we received. New clothes, new toys and new memories.
If only it were that easy as we try to have other new things in our life. Living in a house that is over 100 years old, we have a list of things that we would like to make new. It’s not written down, but we try to save enough to pay for the items on our list. When we have saved enough, or think we have saved enough, or have a plan for paying for an item, it will eventually get done.
I say “eventually” because, more times than not, something else pops up demanding immediate attention. Our resources are then used to fix the squeaky wheel. That’s just life as we know it. I’m sure most, if not all of you, know exactly what I’m saying.
God has a list of things that He is making new. He shares about His list with the Apostle John, in Revelation 21:5-7, “Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ And He said to me, ‘Write, for these words are true and faithful.’ And He said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be My son’.”
God is making “all things new.” New meaning, “the whole.” Everything, everything is being made new. These are not my words or the words of John. They are the words of “him who sat on the throne.” He speaks to John, then instructs him to “Write, for these words are true (noting concealed” and faithful (trustworthy, trustful).”
I would be able to make more things new at my house, if I took out a second mortgage. God is making all things new, and He has the budget to get it done.
The timetable? Only He knows, but we can put our trust in the One who speaks these true and faithful words. He always keeps His word. Our task is to overcome. Literally “to conquer.” We all like to win. How do we win? By satisfying our spiritual thirst at His fountain. “The fountain of the water of life.”
Overcoming is the call in the letters written to each of the seven churches in the book of Revelations. It must be the goal of every believer. We overcome by thirsting after righteousness and drinking God’s fountain freely.
Everyone who overcomes will inherit. What will we inherit? “All Things.” All the things made new of God. No secondhand, no new old stock still in the box. NEW! Original custom made things made by the hand of God Himself.
The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to renew our commitment to being an overcomer. As an overcomer you are an heir of everything God makes new.
Follow the Apostle Paul who writes in Philippians 3: 13-14(NKJV), “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
I don’t know what all of God’s new things will look like. I invite you to join with me and keep pressing on toward the prize. Be an overcomer!
Pastor Rick Borgman