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| “I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” |
| —Isaiah 43:19 |
So many people are discouraged because they feel their lives have become dry and useless. Their lives once seemed full of hope and promise. They went about their daily tasks without a thought for the future. But now, it’s like a harsh wind has blown across their lives and turned the fertile garden of their days into a desert wasteland.
If you are one who feels you have lost nearly everything that matters to you, let these words of God, spoken through the Prophet Isaiah, give you hope. Isaiah 43:16-19:
This is what the Lord says—he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
“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.”
Whatever part of your world may have become a desert wasteland will be renewed this day. Why? Because God is doing a new thing. That’s what He has promised! So, turn your back on those past troubles and drink deeply from the streams of living water that God has provided for you.
You may not yet even perceive that something new has come. Nevertheless, God’s promises are certain and true. It’s a new day, a new world. The old is past. The new has come. Embrace God’s new plan with confidence and with a grateful heart. The new will be better than the old.
Even if the dust in your eyes keeps you from seeing what God is doing, plunge your head into the desert stream, wipe the dust out of your eyes, and choose to believe that God’s promise is true. God will reward your faithful hope and expectation.
Based on a blog originally posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2015
