Why Sadie Robertson Huff Embraces New Beginnings in Christ
By Movieguide® Contributor
Sadie Robertson Huff is sharing how good it is to let go of the old and become new in Christ.
“Isaiah 43: 11 says this, ‘Remember not the former things nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing…So I want to talk to us about a new thing but first I’m going to tell you a funny story, and it’s the story of how I met my husband,” Huff said to a crowd at Life Surge Atlanta in March.
“So I met my husband in a pretty funny way. The day before I met my husband I had just gone through a breakup, and I told all my friends that night I am done dating for a little while,” she explained. “Like, ‘Don’t let me do it. I’m done. I [don’t] need a heartbreak. This is just too much drama.’”
To hold her to her word, her friends recorded a video of Huff saying she wouldn’t date for six months. But it was only the next day when she saw her future husband.
“I see Christian Huff at the beach, and I turn around to my friends, and I said, ‘Delete that video.’ I mean no joke, I saw him, and I was like ‘Forget what I said yesterday, behold there is a new thing’ and so I see Christian and I’m like, ‘Wow, he is so cute.’”
Her friends encouraged her not to talk to him, but she said hi, and they got to talking later.
She said, “He is cute but more than that I was like, I liked who he was, and so we started talking on the phone. We started getting to know each other, and this was in July, and he asked me if he could take me on a date, and I said, ‘Yeah. How does September the 10th sound?’ and he said ‘September? It’s July. I was like, ‘Exactly.’”
“I was still spacing it out. Giving myself a little time…to, you know, get my friends okay with it, but, two, I actually did know like there’s a reason,” the DUCK DYNASTY star continued. “I said that there’s a reason. I said I don’t need to be in a relationship right now, and the truth is, I had kind of been on this toxic cycle of going from one relationship to the next relationship to the next relationship to the next relationship.”
When Huff was a teenager, she got into a relationship that left her “broken-hearted.” Whenever she got into a new relationship, she tried to let it heal her past heartbreak, and it didn’t work.
“So I kept stepping into new relationships, but I was having the same problems. I was stepping into new relationships but having the same insecurities, new relationships having the same broken heart, always expecting the new relationship to heal the old thing, but the truth is, what I realized and what we realize in life is the new thing doesn’t fix the old thing,” she said.
“…But it’s good news for this reason. You don’t have to wait for the new thing to heal the old thing,” she preached.
Huff encouraged the audience to not wait for a new thing to become new themselves.
“You don’t have to have the new thing to heal you,” she said. “You walk into the new thing healed, and it’s actually so much better like that because actually, even if tomorrow looks no different than today, even if nothing in your circumstances changed tomorrow but you change today then everything about tomorrow will be different. You see, if nothing changes with the job, if nothing changes with the opportunity, if nothing changes in the marriage but you, everything changes if you’re renewed.
“If you’re refreshed, your perspective changes. Your identity changes, your heart changes. Then so does everything you step into and that’s really the best news ever because we don’t need anything other than Jesus right here, right now to do the work in us,” she said.
Huff noted how pruning trees creates healthy growth. Like trees, we also need to cut away the bad to make new.
“2 Corinthians 5:17 says this, ‘Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come,’” Huff shared. “So many of us, we have to let go of the old so that we can even enjoy what God has in the new.”
“You see, it says in the word a good tree will produce good fruit and a bad tree will produce bad fruit. That sounds obvious, right? There’s so much truth to that,” she said.
If you’re walking with Christ, you’re like a tree that produces good fruit. If you’re not, you’re like a tree that won’t produce anything good.
“Every relationship I was stepping into was not good because I wasn’t [producing good fruit] and thank God I actually did slow it down a little bit with Christian and pursue my relationship with the Lord first — let God redeem my heart, let God restore what was broken — so that I could step in and truly get the fullness of what God had for me in the new,” she shared.
At another conference this year, Huff spoke about other spiritual topics like conviction.
She said, “The tricky thing is, if you ignore your convictions and continue to compromise, these little things can eventually become big things …God isn’t using our convictions to shame us — it’s to tell us there’s a better way. I’m so THANKFUL for conviction.”
Recently, Huff and her husband chose to limit screen time for their family. She noticed that screen time has negatively affected her two young daughters, herself, and her husband.
She shared some of the benefits:
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We have way more fun.
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We spend most of our time outside.
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We are much more tired (ha!), but it’s definitely more rewarding.
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We all find it easier to go to bed at night.
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Everyone wakes up much happier.
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We talk more, telling stories, reading books, saying prayers, and singing songs.
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We engage in more creative activities.
Movieguide® recently reported on Huff’s parenting:
“I realized in the power of confidence as a parent because so many of [my] friends struggle with mom guilt, and I’ve had moments of mom guilt myself,” she said. “I talked to a counselor about it one day, and he said, ‘Sadie, if you raise your kid out of guilt, you will raise a confused and entitled child. Raising them out of guilt will confuse them. It will make them entitled because they’ll know they can get whatever they want because you feel guilty for not giving it to them.’”
“He said the best thing you can do is to be confident, and I realized as a mom that I am much more confident as a mom whenever I’m parenting with God, knowing that I’m learning from the best teacher,” she added.