New Things

Isaiah 43:18-19 "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 desert and streams in the wasteland." (NIV)

Have you ever wished you could forget some of the things you did in the past and start all over again? In these verses, God talks about not holding onto the past but embracing the new things which He is about to do in our lives. Wow! Isn't that wonderful? Sure it sounds wonderful, but what are these new things He plans to do?

God wants to bring new hope, new vision, and new opportunities. It says He will make a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. In the natural it is impossible, but with God nothing is impossible. This is evidence of the miracles He wants to perform in our lives. He wants to bring the life of Christ into areas of our life which we thought were dead. He wants to stir up spiritual gifts which we thought were lost. He wants to resurrect talents we thought were gone. He desires to give new gifts, new talents, and new anointing.

If He is so willing to do all these things for us, why is it we aren't seeing them? If we look a little further down to verse 22, it says, "Yet you have not called upon Me....." He is wanting to do so much in our lives, but we just are not interested. He says, He hasn't even put a heavy burden on us or huge requirement and yet still we choose not to call out to Him. We choose not to honor Him and His ways. Why do we choose not to be open with Him?

We argue that we are open to Him. We even assure ourselves we are fulfilling all our "Christian duties." This is not the solution. What is the solution? In Revelation 2:4, Jesus says, "Yet I hold this against you: you have forsaken your first love." We have to come back to the intimate love relationship we had with Jesus. We have to come to the point where nothing else is more important than Him. Once we put Him first in our lives and all that He has for us, we will see new things taking place in our life!

Let us open ourselves to Him and expect Him to do great things, in us and through us.