Isaiah 43: 18-19

Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

This is a very interesting verse to me because the only consistent things in all of our lives is change. It seems though, like “change” gets a bad rap. Especially in my life. From the beginning to the end of our lives there always has been and always will be, change. If not for change, you’d be who you were yesterday. We changed from the womb to the world, from infant to child, from school to school, relationship to relationship and belief to belief. If you stop and consider it, every day of your life is marked with change. So again, why do we fight it so hard? Why are we expending so much energy, both physical and emotional, shadowboxing something we will never control. Maybe it’s how you view The Author of Change. If you view Him as a harsh dictator, of course you’d fear the change. If you view Him as non existent, then this change that occurs can feel completely wreckless and damaging. If you see Him as a grudge holding, punishing God then this undesired change can feel like payback for all the wrong you do when nobody is looking. It’s possible, though, to view Him through the eyes of a child; entrusting The Father with their best interest.

He says BEHOLD (which by definition is “to watch or see something amazing or impressive”) I am doing a new thing. New, as in something you have yet to see. Springing forth is upward or forward movement. It is being graduated or elevated to a place you haven’t been before. Can’t you see it? Don’t you feel it? We all experience the wilderness of the desert in some form of fashion. Feeling the darkness close in on you like an all encompassing steel box. Willing to give anything for a few seconds of liquefied satiation when the thirst makes every breath feel like steel wool passing through your sandpapered esophagus. For some of us we see it on the horizon, inevitably closing in on us. For some, we’ve been in it for so long that we can see the end in sight. But for us all, He is making a way to get out of it. The vehicle for this freedom is change. I get that it is easier said than done but I am convinced that for all of us, He is reaching out to us, saying “take My hand and I will show you the way”. Take a minute and think back on every scary situation you’ve come through and came out on the other side bigger, stronger and faster than you stepped into it. Most of us felt pushed into or dragged into it.

In those memories of overcoming lives the strength needed to make it through this trial. To take the chance at the unimaginable. Everything you seek is on the other side of this change your fighting against. Embrace the journey for it is where everything you will need to survive the newness of the next season will be gained. Understand that Your Father loves you enough to only want the best for you so if He’s saying its time to move them He knows why. You inevitably follow what you believe in enough to leave your faith in. It’s with your knowledge of what you can’t see, the pain and trauma of repeated harmful patterns, or you can trust Jehovah Jireh who has yet to fail you. Change is scary, it takes you out of your comfort zone. He will be your stability when life’s boat rocks so hard that it seems it might turn over. Let Him do the new thing in you.

Phillipians 1:6
I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.