New Things

I like new things. New clothes. New tools. Even new “toys” like the quad-copter drone one of my daughters got me for Christmas. Wait. It has a camera. It’s a media tool, right?

God understands us so well. He knows how we react to something new. Through Isaiah, God let us know what He was doing was something different from the past.

[blockquote author=”Isaiah 48:19a NLT” link=”” target=”_blank”]…I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?[/blockquote]

The New Year will surely hold new things for all of us. Yes, we will likely drag some of the old stuff over into 2018. But our Lord is creative, and He is working out His new thing right now. See, the Lord says, I have already started on the new things for you. Don’t you see it?

If you are like me, I’m wondering what God’s new thing will be. I want to see it. I have to improve my faith vision to see what the Lord is placing before me. Of course, it may stretch us and move us beyond what is comfortable. It may rock us back on our spiritual heels as we confront the new things. But if it is from the Lord Jesus, you know it is going to ultimately be good.

[blockquote author=”Isaiah 48:19b NLT” link=”” target=”_blank”]The rest of that passage in Isaiah is interesting. Listen.

I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.[/blockquote]

A pathway. A river. A communication link. A way to get from here to there. A new frequency. A new digital technology. Who knows what the Lord has for us in this new year and the years that follows? Will we embrace it? Will we explore it? Will we even see that it is God who is providing this new thing?

Yes, it is easier to keep doing the same thing the same way. It is more comfortable to stay in our own area of understanding and experience. But God is up to something new. And the results will be amazing. Refreshing. Powerful. Again, from Isaiah 48:

[blockquote author=”Isaiah 48:20 NLT” link=”” target=”_blank”]The wild animals in the fields will thank me, the jackals and owls, too, for giving them water in the desert. Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wasteland so my chosen people can be refreshed.[/blockquote]

So…what is the new thing that God is doing in your life, in your ministry in this New Year?