April 28 Seriously, I Want To Know What Is New?

So, what is new in your business or on your team? You have had and added great thoughts, wonderful people, acquired resources, technologies, better tools, and systems in the past. But what is new so far, this year? If we are not adding something on a continual basis we could be slowing or stopping our growth.

Have you reviewed any of the new ideas from the start of the year? Doing that alone might create something new. Keeping a continuous newness of thought process in place challenges us to stretch. It is especially valuable with those items that we are comfortable with. It is a great exercise.

If you are not growing, you are decaying. Where have you seen those fresh green sprouts of spring in your business so far? If we do not stop and be accountable to measure and review, our minds will allow us to be comfortable and remain in a status quo state.

When the sprouts of spring show up it is because they have received some water and experienced a temperature change. You must add the water if you are going to grow a plant. As a leader, we need to be accountable to monitor for the new shoots on our teams, products, and services as well.

We add the water or accountability to assist in the growing process. If you have seen some sprouts, what can you do to nourish and water their potential? If you have not seen any new areas, what can you do about that in the next seven days? 

Jesus came on the scene as something new. He was inspirationally new daily to all those that had not encountered him. He continued his teaching daily and amazed the people that he encountered. His newness is so inspiring that he sprouted fresh green growth in you and me here some two thousand years after his death.

Even after he left the earth, his focus on the new still changes people today in our world. So, what about you? If we are to follow Jesus as his disciples, is it possible that we too can inspire others to something new? Where are you being a new person this year?

Are you growing in your faith, in your love, in your relationship with Christ and the world? When pain or suffering have our attention, our growth might be stifled but it does not have to be that way. Christ made a way for us to do something new.

In the book of Psalms written before Christ walked the earth, we read, "Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord." Psalm 102:18 (NIV). What do you want new in your life? Who can be in a new relationship with Christ because of you?

The biggest obstacle to the new items in our lives, including our faith, is normally ourselves. Perhaps you need an accountability partner who will love you, not be judgmental, and provide you with some occasional accountability water. What are you going to do in the next seven days to find something new?



Let us pray, Heavenly Father, we thank you for all things new. Make our eyes and hearts be opened to something new today. Make the winter of our hearts be filled with the freshness of the new of spring. Make the spring rains wash away the distance between ourselves and Jesus. Guide us to seek out the newness of the day. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen,