New Things

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Stop dwelling on past events

and brooding over days gone by.

I am about to do something new;

this moment it will unfold.

Can you not perceive it?

Even through the wilderness I shall make a way,

and paths in the barren desert.....

for I shall provide water in the wilderness

and rivers in the barren desert.....

Isaiah 43:18-21

Even through the wilderness and desert, God makes a way. Through times of difficulty, heartache, dryness and nothingness, God is making a way for us. Change can be difficult. Things that have been dear to us for many years can suddenly be taken away and we feel lost. We feel that nobody understands. Things will never be the same. We keep looking back to those glory days when things were just perfect. God understands, and more than that, He is with us in it, making a new things, different things, better things. God is making a way.