God is doing something new in you.
Don’t miss it.
Don’t mistake it.
Don’t misunderstand it.
He is working in your life, today, in this season, in this moment. He is doing something new and good and beautiful.
It started when you first met Him and He made you His new creation. It started with a new name and a new destiny as old debts and identities were cancelled.
And what He started in you, He is finishing.
He is bringing His new life to every corner of your old one.
Do you see it?
New things are, by their very nature, tricky to recognize because they are unfamiliar. They are different to what we have experienced before. They seem foreign and easy to misinterpret or overlook or even reject.
Sometimes these good, new things are hidden behind disappointments or imperfect circumstances. Or perhaps they are disguised as setbacks or u-turns or closed doors.
Sometimes they just feel too painful to be good.
In Isaiah, God pleads with His children, ‘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.’ Isaiah 43.18-19
God was doing something new but His children were in danger of missing it. It didn’t fit within the perimeter of what He had done in the past. It was almost unrecognizable, even strange but it was good and it was God.
And so it is with us.
God is making a way. He is carving out a path. It may twist and turn and appear to be going completely the wrong direction, but don’t fear. It may look unfamiliar, even scary but remember that it is a new way, a way you haven’t gone before. Trust the Good Shepherd to lead you well. Trust His ways because they are perfect.
Don’t expect things to always be the same, to look safe and familiar. We have mountains to climb and the paths are steep. Sometimes the only way forward is straight up.
God is always doing something new, something surprising, something out-of-the-box.
It’s a God thing. He is the creator after all and His ways of working in our lives are countless.
Our God has never run out unique melodies so don’t be surprised when He gives you a new song to sing.
His mercies are new every morning, so keep your eyes open. There are fresh revelations in His Word and new places to discover in prayer. There are areas of your life that are broken that Jesus wants to touch and heal. There are long-standing circumstances He is ready to change and old prayers He is ready to answer.
Look. See what He is doing. It is new and fresh and alive. Don’t miss it by facing the wrong way. Don’t let yesterday’s discouragement close your eyes to a miracle today. Remember the wonderful things God has done in the past but don’t expect future blessings to look the same. God is so much bigger than that.
Let Him be big.
Let Him work newness into your life. He has already started. There are green shoots poking up through the cold soil. Don’t miss them. Open your eyes, your heart and your hands. Say yes to God, even before you see the whole picture. Trust His goodness and His leading and He will make a way, a new way, a good way.
And then expect every single day of your Christian life to be utterly unpredictable and altogether miraculous, for the glory of His name.
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