"History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new."
Why do we read trade magazines and online "news" like TechCrunch, Mashable, etc? Why do we try and keep up to date with innovation? Why do we Follow on Twitter those that get to the news first? Our culture is obsessed with what is new. And, even in the sharing economy we still are curious to know what is being developed and what is on the horizon. We don't have to look any further than the lines of people who wait for the midnight delivery of new technology or new entertainment. Our culture rewards those who are there first and who can rush out and tell everyone else their experience. Technology has given us instant access to share, so our perceived rewards to being there first has been heightened. When was the last time you delivered to your consumers, customers, or employees something so new that they rushed out to tell everyone else?
God is new to us every morning but always the same! Read that again. He is new every morning but always the same! The newness is what we can receive from Him in our lives. But, as we read in Ecclesiastes, nothing is really new. Why that is important is that every day in the world we live someone is pitching something new and in that pitch trying to pull us away from our walk with God. We are challenged in our work to create new products, services and offerings. That is fine. But, we are not to try and create God anew in our image of what we think He should be. That is the way those around us would like it to be. We are to stand firm today and call upon what is not new, but instead what has been and will be eternal. Today we start a new week. Let this week be one where our commitment and courage is renewed!
Reference: Ecclesiastes 1:9 (New Living Translation)
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day 1059: New!
"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!"
With every new marketing executive hire comes a new idea and most likely a new marketing campaign. Any new marketing campaign brings lots of costs and changes throughout the whole company or organization. The costs go up significantly when the brand, or the logo of the company, is changed. Then every piece of stationary, every building sign, every truck painting, every product package, every business card, everything must change. It's always a huge decision that many people in the company have to buy into and agree upon. But, it is always driven by one person who is most often the most senior Marketing executive. She or he believes wholeheartedly that the change will be substantive, important and long-lasting. From there the entire organization rallies around the change and go about spreading the word with advertising on TV, billboards, online, print, etc. and most importantly through word-of-mouth. The new campaign is a total overhaul and make-over. Marketing programs come with a price as many things that bring about newness.
The great thing about us as believers is that we can receive our own overhaul and makeover and we don't have to be a Chief Marketing Officer or sell it to a lot of other people to make it happen. All we need to do is make our own decision. Yes, we have to be willing to bear the cost of giving up those areas of our lives that are of the old and don't support the new. Paul tells us that this new and eternal campaign comes with our simple acceptance of Christ; "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" As you work today, can others around you see the new you or are they still seeing the vestiges of the old brand, the old logo, the old personality? Each day, in each work situation where it is that the old that wants to come through, we must hold to our new approach to life, the one we are living through Christ. Just like after the new marketing campaign has taken hold, we can't just reach into the desk and pull out our old business cards and start passing them around. Once the new is here, the old must go. Can you say today that you have given up all of the old and are totally on board with your new you?
Reference: 2 Corinthians 5:17 (New Living Testament)
With every new marketing executive hire comes a new idea and most likely a new marketing campaign. Any new marketing campaign brings lots of costs and changes throughout the whole company or organization. The costs go up significantly when the brand, or the logo of the company, is changed. Then every piece of stationary, every building sign, every truck painting, every product package, every business card, everything must change. It's always a huge decision that many people in the company have to buy into and agree upon. But, it is always driven by one person who is most often the most senior Marketing executive. She or he believes wholeheartedly that the change will be substantive, important and long-lasting. From there the entire organization rallies around the change and go about spreading the word with advertising on TV, billboards, online, print, etc. and most importantly through word-of-mouth. The new campaign is a total overhaul and make-over. Marketing programs come with a price as many things that bring about newness.
The great thing about us as believers is that we can receive our own overhaul and makeover and we don't have to be a Chief Marketing Officer or sell it to a lot of other people to make it happen. All we need to do is make our own decision. Yes, we have to be willing to bear the cost of giving up those areas of our lives that are of the old and don't support the new. Paul tells us that this new and eternal campaign comes with our simple acceptance of Christ; "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!" As you work today, can others around you see the new you or are they still seeing the vestiges of the old brand, the old logo, the old personality? Each day, in each work situation where it is that the old that wants to come through, we must hold to our new approach to life, the one we are living through Christ. Just like after the new marketing campaign has taken hold, we can't just reach into the desk and pull out our old business cards and start passing them around. Once the new is here, the old must go. Can you say today that you have given up all of the old and are totally on board with your new you?
Reference: 2 Corinthians 5:17 (New Living Testament)
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