Devotion: ‘See, I am doing a new thing!’

Spring is finally on its way, even if it is still trying to be cold and snowy.

We are blessed to live in a part of the country that has four seasons. We watch the leaves change from green to the reds and oranges of fall. The winter comes and the tree branches are bare. The winter melts into spring and the trees begin to flower and sprout new green leaves and summer follows closely with its warm/hot summer winds. Each season is new every year.

In Ecclesiastes 3:1 we read: “There’s a season for everything and a time for every matter under the heavens:” In Isaiah 43:19: it says: “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.”

We are now in the season of Lent, a time that darkness seems to rule, at least until we move our clock forward to Daylight Saving Time. We are restless and ready for the colors of spring, to shake off the old and look for the new.

Isaiah 43:18 says, “Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past.”

Life teaches us many things and one of those things is to learn to let go. We can’t hang on to past hurts, past struggles and past relationships. Sometimes we need to give ourselves time to grieve, then pick ourselves up and start looking ahead once again.

We need to see this new spring season as it arrives in all its beauty. Take time to breath in the fresh air, see the flowers as they begin to poke out of the soil and the grass as turns green and the trees as they begin to leaf out. Shake off the old and with a new perspective see the new things God is doing.