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A new chapter

My feet slowly hit the plush carpet as I shuffled out of bed and wandered downstairs for a cup of coffee. In the quiet room I sat with my thoughts-jumbled and disorganized attempting to sift through them. Today is February 11, 2013. To most it’s another mundane Monday. For me, today marks a new chapter in our lives. Yesterday we said good-bye and closed a 5 year chapter of formal church ministry. But today marks the day of a new story–a new plot–a new adventure-but the same Jesus…the Jesus who never changes. I still serve the same God who is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
There I sat, Bible in hand asking the Lord for a verse. A verse to bring me closure and healing. I was brought right back to the same verse He continually leads me back to over the past few months.

“But forget all that—

   it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.

 For 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

A new chapter is being written by the author and perfecter of our faith. I close the book of the past and fix my gaze to a God who is creating rivers in the desert. Tomorrow I will expand and share more of what I believe God has been confirming in me. For today, I chose to let go of the past and run the race set out before me. My shoes are tied and I am ready to run towards the prize ahead.
Just like God promised Israel, His promise still stands for you and for I. He will guide us along the unknown path and go before, preparing the way as we keep walking in faith.

 I will lead blind Israel down a new path,

   guiding them along an unfamiliar way.

I will brighten the darkness before them

   and smooth out the road ahead of them.

Yes, I will indeed do these things;

   I will not forsake them. 

Isaiah 42:16

 

 

 

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