It's funny how as soon as New Year hits, it seems we are already well into January. I mean I already feel the year speeding ahead. I keep feeling like the current is pulling me faster than I want to go. I can't change it, I can't fence time. The only person I know with control over time isn't afraid of it at all. So, while I feel the current, I'm not going to fight it. I'm going to focus on God. He started giving me this verse on repeat in December:
Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19
I can't move into new if I won't let go of old.
My hands are tightly balled into fists of what I don't want to let go.
I don't want God to have to pry my fingers open. Or worse, I don't want to end up like the nation of Israel wandering in unbelief through the desert because they refused to trust and obey. Their unbelief kept them from the promised land.
I am trying to keep my hands open so that God can remove what needs to be removed and replace and refresh what stays. He wants to do a new thing in me, He wants to bring that same newness to you, but to receive it, we have to have open hands. Then we have to move in obedience sometimes before we see what He is giving.
One of the hardest things to trust God with is time. It's completely in His hands anyways, but I know He delights in hearing us say we will wait for Him. He wants our trust. He wants our love. I know He wants me to stay dependent and not try to rush because I will surely fall headlong trying to get ahead. I want to anticipate the new thing He is going to do; He wants me to just focus on Him. That's what I am choosing.
Praying and waiting is the hardest.
I am going to ride the current of 2025 with confidence because I know who is in charge, so I am going to splash in the river and take joy in the ride.
What do you need to let God refresh?
Is there somethng you need to release your grip on?
Father, thank you for this new blank canvas of a year. Help me not be afriad but move forward in love. I trust you, remind me. Help me let go and enjoy the ride because I know you know what's coming. I am setting my expectations on You...just You.
In Jesus name, Amen.
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