“I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.” - Isaiah 43:19b (CSB)One of the quiet fears many of us carry into a new season is not whether God can begin something, but whether He will finish it. We have seen good intentions fade. We have watched progress stall. We have experienced moments of hope that never fully materialized. Over time, we learn to expect incompletion.God is not l...  Read More

“Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it?” - Isaiah 43:19a (CSB)God’s question in Isaiah 43 is gentle, but it is not neutral. “Do you not see it?” is not a statement of impatience. It is an invitation to examine what has been shaping perception.Israel could not see what God was doing, not because God was inactive, but because something else had become authori...  Read More

“Look, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it?” - Isaiah 43:19a (CSB)One of the most challenging parts of God’s promise in Isaiah 43 is not what He says He will do, but what He does not provide. God declares that He is doing something new, that it is already unfolding, that a way is being made in the wilderness. But He does not give Israel a map.There is no timeli...  Read More

“Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert.” - Isaiah 43:19b (CSB)When God promises to make a way in the wilderness, He is not speaking metaphorically to avoid reality. He is naming it. Wilderness and desert are not neutral places in Scripture. They represent exile, loss, judgment, barrenness, and the end of human solutions.God is not promising to make the wilderness easier...  Read More

“Do not remember the past events; pay no attention to things of old.” - Isaiah 43:18 (CSB)When God tells His people not to remember the past, He is not asking them to suppress memory or deny pain. He is confronting how the past has been allowed to rule the present. Israel’s history had become more than something they carried. It had become something that defined them.This is where many of us quiet...  Read More

“Do not remember the past events; pay no attention to things of old.” - Isaiah 43:18 (CSB)When God tells His people not to remember the past, it can sound like He is asking them to forget. But that is not what He means. Scripture never invites us into denial. God is not asking Israel to erase their history or pretend it never happened. He is addressing how they are remembering it.Israel is in exil...  Read More