New Wine and New Wine Skin

It's a completely new season - everything started brand new, and even how God chooses to use me is all new, and I feel almost, another step upward in stretching my faith. New Zealand is beautiful, and is an overall amazing nation. 

The welcome I received was warm, from right when we landed on the South Island soil. We were welcomed to our new home for at least these next 2 years with very strong winds that travelled up to 150km/hr and still experienced frosts for the next month or so. 

The base was new, the town small but warm and new, the people new, the currency new - everything was NEW to me. My role was new in a spe

cial way, especially being a wife. It has felt like I am an old person but in a completely new, raw and fresh environment. These last 3 weeks though has made me feel like a completely new person. I can't quite pinpoint what the Lord is doing in my life - it is not at a definable stage yet, and I am completely at peace.

The difficulty is in explaining to friends who ask how things are? There is not a one word answer I can find anywhere in my dictionary except to explain the strangely new feeling I am experiencing. It's not the physical that is new to me - much more than that, it is as though I have a new pair of eyes (like some scales were removed) of faith and a new level of trust. There is nothing in my life that is hindering God's work of making me gloriously new - no current pain, no lack of zeal, no lack of desire for Him. In fact, I have found myself to be even more drawn to Him now than ever before in a fresh new way. His anointing is overflowing. Our conversations are alive and deep. We are dreaming.

It is just so fresh. It seems as though the last 2 years didn't happen. God is captivating my heart afresh and I am so grateful and thankful that He wants to do so. See this post has been just vagueness in terms of description, I don't feel like I give justice to what God is doing and how I am actually feeling and seeing my life go by - but it is new. I think to quote my friend, it is new wine and new wine skin. I don't know what else is ahead of me, but I have never felt so completely in tune with the Father and know that I am in His will and that is the best and safest feeling ever. 

Funny that it has come with the love of my life.