Out with the old… In with the new
My sister has a self-imposed rule. Any time she brings something new into the house, she gets rid of something. This enables her to keep a tidy, clean, uncluttered home. It’s a great rule, and I have tried it myself, with mixed success. I was thinking about this when gardening on Saturday. Finally, here on the East Coast we had a lovely spring day on a Saturday–no rain, over 60 degrees–perfect. The flower bed in the front had become a litter box for the cats around our house and I had to clean it out. When preparing a garden, it’s often necessary to get rid of the old first. Rose bushes need to be pruned, fallen leaves need to be raked up. Flower buds can’t bloom again until the old ones die off.
Leaves turn golden, orange, and brown, and then die and fall off. Bulbs produce beautiful lilies, daffodils, and hyacinth, and then die off. But the tree survives to bud another year. The bulbs remain safe and warm in the soil, and push up a new plant and new flowers every spring. 
Sometimes we need to throw out the old to make way for the new. This is true in our houses, our gardens, and even our lives. For examples, if we want to cultivate a healthy diet, we will need to eliminate or reduce junk food and sugary drinks. When we fill up on food that doesn’t nourish, we are not hungry for healthy food, good food. The same is true in our spiritual life. If we fill up on books, movies, and television shows, our appetite is dimmed for the Word that truly nourishes our lives.
God wants to do a new work in our lives. He wants to deepen our hunger for His will and His Word. But it’s possible that there are some things in our lives that are hindering us. Let’s examine our lives to see what we may need to “throw out” to make way for the new work God wants to do in us.
Isaiah 43:18-19 “Forget the former things;do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
So true; we need to somethings get rid of old things that drag us down.