Don't get stuck on yesterday, get a life... with me
Remember His presence over the miracle
NIV Isaiah 43:15
I am the LORD, your Holy One, Israel's Creator, your
King." 16 This is what the LORD says-- he who made a way through the sea,
a path through the mighty waters, 17 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: 18 "Forget the former things; do
not dwell on the past. 19 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.
20 The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water
in the desert and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my
chosen, 21 the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise. 22
"Yet you have not called upon me, O Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves
for me, O Israel.
I consider this passage of scripture a true New Year's lesson that the Lord
wants us to remember in the coming of a new year. God reminds His people
of His place in their lives as the One who gives them identity and hope.
He gave them life as humans and as people. God wants them to remember
that He is the one that is their king not by choice but by love. God has
become the king of a people because of the reality of a kingdom that He wants
to promote in the world. The Kingdom of God is the issue of the people of
God and distractions are all around us. God wants us to remember that as
the King of the whole universe, He has something more than what meets the eye to
do through His chosen people. They are to display and relay something in
their lives to the watching world. They
are to display a life of faith in the reality of the great Kingdom of Heaven,
who’s leader is God Almighty. They are
to relay the life of one who believes and is devoted to the creator of the
universe.
The king of creation reminds
us that He didn't deliver us to follow the tides of common people apart from
the intervention of God. People remember the greatness of God only
through their own experiences. God wants them and us not to get stuck in
remembering the power of God because of what He did for them then sometime in
the past. This passage is like God saying, "I know that you are
thinking of what happened in the past but I want you to forget about those
things. I am doing a new thing (even greater than what your fathers and
mothers remember).”
God is saying, " I am giving
you a whole new experience to remember and believe. Look around
you." God is saying, I can and will answer the needs of my people
regardless of the obstacle. You can face a new day but don't try to do
that without me. God is the one who brought the Israelites out of
Egypt in the beginning and He is the one who will care for his people.
Remember the relationship with God
over and above the power and miracles of God. Walk with God as a loving,
and personable God who walks with His people. This new day, new
time, new year is just another opportunity to experience the power and majesty
of a God who can do more than we can imagine.
"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly
above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto
him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without
end. Amen. " Eph 3:20-21
Happy New Year- Make it a good one with God!!!
