For I know the
plans I have for you...
to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
God placed "eternity in the heart of man"
and then graciously linked
that expanse of time with hope.
to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
God placed "eternity in the heart of man"
and then graciously linked
that expanse of time with hope.
One of His gifts
to us is the ability to
divide time so that in big and
little ways,
we might mark ends
and beginnings.
In big and little
ways,
hope springs forth
from these divisions.
Every day, we see
a new sunrise
and we greet a day
with a new name.
Then a month with
a new name.
And a year
with a new name.
Twenty fourteen.
The new year
invites us forward and
reminds us that He
still has more for us.
We are grateful
for the past year,
but we also put it
behind us.
To look forward
with new hope.
The Lord always
wants us to look forward
and see
beyond what is visible,
and past what is
limiting.
To look forward
and see
the future and the
hope.
I am about to do
something new.
See, I have
already begun!
Do you not see
it?
I will make a
pathway through the wilderness.
I will create
rivers in the dry wasteland.
Isaiah 43:18-19
The tenses in this
passage reveal mystery.
He is about to do
something.
And He has already
begun.
Do you not see it?
He will
make pathways through
wilderness and
rivers through wasteland.
He speaks about
the future.
But asks if we see
it now.
With the Lord,
"about to do something" and
"already
begun" is the same thing.
We see the
wilderness and wasteland.
He asks us to see
the pathways and rivers
that He "will
make" and "will create."
Because He has
already begun.
It is very clear
that God wants us
to see what isn't
there and
have hope for what
is yet to come.
We have just
observed the passing
of the old year
and the entrance of the new.
Part of His nature
is making all things new and
twenty fourteen is
one of those things.
A new day, a new
month, a new year.
A trinity of new.
The Lord says that
He is
about to do
something.
He says He has
already begun.
Do you not see it?
There is a pathway
marked out
for us to
discover,
flowing
rivers that we might be refreshed,
and a plan to give
us hope.
His love, grace
and mercy
invite us forward and
remind us
that there is
so much more.
The sun has risen
again.
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