HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Isa 43:16-19 This is what the Lord says—he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters,  who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 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.

Oh, these words are powerful!!!!! As we touched on last year (technically it was yesterday), may we go forward not looking at the past, dwelling in the things of yesterday, ignoring today; but may we confidently expect the Lord’s hand in our lives and move according to His guidance.

Regarding this scripture passage, Matthew Henry says, "Thus saith the Lord, who did make a way  in the sea, the Red Sea, and did bring forth Pharaoh’s chariot and horse, that they might lie down together in the bottom of the sea, and never rise, but be extinct. He that did this can, if he please, make a way for you in the sea when you return out of Babylon, and will do so rather than leave you there.’’ Note, For the encouragement of our faith and hope, it is good for us often to remember what God has done formerly for his people against his and their enemies. Think particularly what he did at the Red Sea, how he made it, 1. A road to his people, a straight way, a near way, nay, a refuge to them, into which they fled and were safe the waters being a wall unto them. A grave to his enemies. The chariot and horse were drawn out by him who is Lord of all hosts, on purpose that they might fall together…IV. He promises to do yet greater things for them than he had done in the days of old; so that they should not have reason to ask, in a way of complaint, as Gideon did, Where are all the wonders that our fathers told us of? for they should see them repeated, nay, they should see them outdone (v. 18): "Remember not the former things, from them to take occasion, as some do, to undervalue the present things, as if the former days were better than these; no, you may, if you will, comparatively forget them, and yet know enough by the events of your own day to convince you that the Lord is God alone; for, behold, the Lord will do a new thing, no way inferior, both for the wonder and the worth of the mercy, to the things of old.’’  

Know that the God who loves you unconditionally and Who never leaves or forsakes you is with you. He is ready, in 2015, to do a new thing that is no way inferior to the things of old. Stay close to Him, seek Him, desire after Him, and enjoy watching His movement on your behalf.