The Season is Changing

I am having a hard time getting away from a message lately that the Lord seems to keep circulating in my world, and yet I perceive that the word is not for me alone.  By saying “hard time getting away from”, I simply mean that the message is everywhere I turn.  It is revealed from the Lord in a number of ways, but the understanding is always the same—Change is coming and has indeed already begun.

The Lord led me to Isaiah 43:1-3a at the beginning of this year and impressed upon my heart that this was the passage of scripture to guide my way through this year.  Interestingly though, recently, He has impressed a different part of the chapter deeply on my heart:

“This is what the Lord says—he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, 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:  ‘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 43:16:19

The season is changing—not just literally—but spiritually as well.  God is doing a new thing.  Do we perceive it?  Do we see it?  The Lord declares in this passage to forget the things from the past—don’t dwell on them…let go.  Proverbs 4:25-27 says:  “Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.  Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways.  Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.”

Paul, too, addresses this idea of moving forward and letting go in Philippians 3:13,14:  “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do:  Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

In order to take hold of the new things, we must let go of the old things—both good and bad.  We must make room in our hands to grasp onto God and let Him lead us into the new things that He is doing and that He has for us.  We cannot do that if our hands are full of our trophies and defeats.

Today, let’s fix our eyes on God.  He is the One making the way for us.  If we hold onto Him, He will lead us into a new place, a good place…for His Glory.