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A New Lease on Life



As I was listening to the radio one day, a person called in and was describing a new opportunity that had come up that would significantly change the course of their life.  The on air announcer then told the caller that it sounded like they were getting a new lease on life.  While I’ve heard the expression many times before, this time, for some reason, it really stirred my attention.

In researching the expression further, I found some more details on the web regarding “a new lease on life”.  The expression, with its allusion to a rental agreement, dates from the early 1800s and originally referred only to recovery from illness. By the mid-1800s it was applied to any kind of fresh beginning.  So now, it represents a fresh start; renewed vigor and good health. 

Fresh beginnings are great!  In fact, one of the greatest of all new beginnings is when we first put our faith in Christ:  “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”  (2 Cor 5:17)

After becoming that new creation, we can then also go about experiencing newness of life:  “Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.”  (Rom 6:4)

As we walk with God in the newness of life, we can also experience and enjoy something that is new every morning:  “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”  (Lamentations 3:22-23)

By walking with God in newness of life and in newly experiencing His mercies every morning, we’re really on track to enter into the best new lease on life ever!

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