Isaiah 43:18-19 (TNIV) “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.”
We all have a tendency to dwell on the past. I know I do. We can’t change one thing about it, yet we replay it in our minds as if we could. It is no benefit to us except to help us not make the same mistakes we’ve made in the past. We should heed the warnings from the past and that is all. If we don’t learn from our mistakes than we will continue to make the same ones over and over again.
God tells us to forget the past; don’t dwell on it. When you woke up this morning you were given a fresh 24 hours to do something good for yourself and for your fellow man. God has a will for each and every one of us. His will is being laid out daily before us. He makes a way where there IS no way. Man’s ways are nothing like God’s ways. God moves on men’s hearts and whispers thoughts into their minds via the Holy Spirit. He creates unlikely scenarios which only make sense to the righteous and unfolds His plans to perfection. Will we see it? Only if we are looking for it. It all lies in the level of faith and trust we have in our Heavenly Father. He is trustworthy, without question. There is no falsehood in him. So when He states in scripture that He is “doing a new thing” and that He is “making a way” you can believe it.
The past in unchanging … it stands as a testament to what we have done. It doesn’t have to have any pronounced effect on what we will DO going forward. Today is a new day. God is doing a new thing constantly. We must know Him to partake in what He is doing. Then we must grow in our knowledge and trust of Him. Once we do that we will begin to see things differently. Seeing life through the eyes of faith is a wonderful thing. Obstacles no longer seem like obstacles at all, but rather challenges. There is nothing this life can throw at us that God cannot see us through. Think about that. God is in complete and ultimate control. He has to be or He could not be who He says He is. So what on this earth could possibly stop us from doing that which is righteous and holy? Nothing. Knowing God may not get you a Mercedes Benz or a mansion this side of heaven, but it WILL provide for you peace and comfort when you most need it, guidance and direction when you are lost and strength to deal with the worst things you can imagine. The things God gives are priceless in value, unlike the things of this world which are here today and gone tomorrow. If you rely on God for all things, you will find that He truly IS doing new things all the time and would do something completely different and new just for you if necessary. What a wonderful God we serve.
WALK WITH THE KING TODAY AND BE A BLESSING!
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