This time of the year brings new beginnings to people in many ways. Graduations and weddings mark new changes in life. Planting crops mark new beginnings for the new year of farming. In depth housecleaning marks a new beginning in our home environment. Something new in our lives seems to bring a sense of excitement, anticipation and hope. God, too, wants to bring something new into our lives every day. Are we looking for the new thing that God is doing in our lives?

In the book of Isaiah in God’s Word, we read the story of the Israelite nation whom God chose to be his special people. These people were much like us, following God with devotion at one time and then doing just what they wanted to do the next time.

God loved His people unconditionally. But His people did not always show the same kind of faithful love to God. God always wanted the best for His people. But sometimes it was hard to get their attention. So God allowed the people to be oppressed. When they cried out to God in repentance, He rescued them. The cycle repeated itself over and over.

God truly wanted to bring something new to His people. But in order to receive that new thing, they would have to forget the former things. They would have to stop dwelling on the past and reach for the new thing God wanted to do for them.

Isaiah 43:18 tells us, “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing: now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,”

God is telling His people that the miracles of the past are nothing compared to the miracles of the future. He is telling them that He is going to do things for them that they can not even imagine. Who can imagine rivers in a desert? But with God, nothing is impossible.

What impossibilities are you facing in your life today? God is in the business of turning impossibilities into possibilities and then realities. Do you need something new from God? He is just a prayer away.

He is able to work in your circumstances, bringing good from all things. Romans 8:28 reminds us in the words of the Apostle Paul, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”

I invite you to be looking for what new thing God wants to do in you, for you and through you each day. Look to Him to make old things new and to turn the impossibilities of your life into realities. God’s message of hope to you is, “Behold, I will do a new thing...(Is. 43:19a).