This morning I sat with my bible and coffee. I tried to focus despite the wide awake toddler wallering on my lap. As I read through Isaiah my heart kept churning. Old hurts we’re haunting me this morning and wouldn’t leave my mind.

I lacked focus, and with a hardened heart full of frustration and defeat, I went to close my bible. Just before it shut I stopped. A specific verse had caught my eye.

It was like God was saying “wait, you need to read this!”

Isaiah 43:18-19 “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.”

Friend, we all have hurts in our past don’t we? Situations that didn’t go as planned, people that did us wrong, wounds that we struggle to let fully heal. What if today we chose to not dwell on the past, but focused on the path God has already laid before us? What if we turned that energy we’re using to focus on pain, and used it to further His kingdom?

We know that God is making a way, even if we cannot yet see the path ahead.

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