But I kept using it because I didn't have another one to replace it.
Sound familiar? Have you ever felt like that inside? I have. We may be in a flawed situation, but we stay there because we don't see anything with which to replace it.
I had looked for a new diffuser, but not seen one. Then I remembered: Amazon!! Of course! I found it there, and my sister brought me down a new one. What a difference! Now I could throw away the old one...because I had a new one to take its place.
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When our heart is ever in this kind of situation, remember...God!! Of course! If we meet someone else who feels like this, let's tell him/her about the Person who is willing and able to offer the New, to take the place of the Old...if we are willing...and if we allow Him. It's our choice.
"You were taught... to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." (Ephesians 4:22-24)
"...since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator." (Colossians 3:9-10)
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It's not always easy to "put off the old", but God is always ready to act on our acceptance of the fact that our "old" needs replacing with His "new".
"...and to provide for those who grieve in Zion - to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair." (Isaiah 61:3)
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Our God of Love is an inexhaustible source of "newness".
"his compassions never fail. They are new every morning."
(Lamentations 3:23)
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