Behold I am about to do a new thing.
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even put a road in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert. ( Isaiah 43:19 Amp)
The dictionary defines new as something freshly made and unused; what has not been known before or what has not been experienced before.
Synonyms for the word new; include fresh novel and original.
Something new tends to bring with it excitement, anticipation and wonder. We even celebrate the new with every year that comes. We say happy new year to each other in this season.
However as fresh as it may be, we can miss it altogether.
The above scripture asks us, “will you not be aware of it?”
How do we not recognise something new?
I believe there are few factors that can hinder us in 2021 from experiencing the new thing God wants to do in our lives:
- are you holding onto pain and disappointment from past seasons so much so that your heart has become hardened?
- are you bitter and angry?
- what are you expecting?
- have you become so used to how things have always been
- you say you don’t want change or something different
- the circumstances of the world have become too much for you, you have given up .
The Israelites showed this when their time came to be delivered from Egypt.
Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor. (Exodus 6:9 AMP)
Throughout their time in the desert they complained desiring even to go back to slavery .
“If only we could have some meat! In Egypt we used to eat all the fish we wanted, and it cost us nothing. Remember the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic we had? But now our strength is gone. There is nothing at all to eat — nothing but this manna day after day .” ( Numbers 11 :4-5)
They missed out on reaching the promised land.
“Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.” (Psalm 96:10-11)
Because of their unbelief, most of those who left Egypt were not permitted into the land of rest, Canaan. In fact, of all those who left Egypt, only Joshua and Caleb made it into the promised land.
God wants to do a new thing in our lives, families, business, communities, nations.
Our prayer is, may we be willing to let go of the past, the disappointments and even our own understanding so we do not miss out .
What is God asking you to let go of ?
