15 September 2023 - I am about to do a new thing

Isaiah 43:19(NIV) “. . . 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.”

Isaiah 43:18b-19(GNTD) “Do not cling to events of the past or dwell on what happened long ago. Watch for the new thing I am going to do. It is happening already - you can see it now! I will make a road through the wilderness and give you streams of water there.”

In this passage God reminds His people that He will defeat the Babylonians. God reminds them of how He led Moses and defeated Pharaoh’s army hundreds of years ago. God tells them not to keep looking back at what He has done but look ahead to even greater things that He will do.

Isaiah’s writings to the children of Israel came at a bleak period of their history. They are in captivity; they have lost everything they thought they would keep forever, and they were home sick for the land and the blessing God had promised them. They would cry to God, and again He would hear and deliver them.

God wants to do something new in your life. The Word says: I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 43:18(NLT) “But forget all that - it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.”

If you are continually looking back to what’s behind you, you cannot see where you are going.

Psalm 85:6-8a(NKJV) Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You? Show us Your mercy, LORD, And grant us Your salvation. I will hear what God the LORD will speak,

The question is not: What has God done? The question must be: What is God doing in your life right now? What is it that you want Him to do in your life right now?

In order to move on to new things in Christ you must know that you cannot allow your past failures to possess you, to keep you back.

Don’t dwell on the past. CHANGE YOUR FOCUS. Embrace the new thing that God wants to do in your life.

The children of Israel had a choice. They could view their past and the problems of their present, or they could focus upon what God wanted to do in their lives.

God was about to do something new, but He asks if they will perceive it, if they will see it, if they will recognise it? God tells Israel not to be so focused on what He has done in the past so that they don’t miss what He is about to do now.