January 1–Forgetting The Things Behind
Happy New Year friend! I trust you are ready to begin 2018 with a renewed passion and fervor for our King.
I love this passage in Isaiah for the New Year and I especially like how the Message puts it...
“This is what GOD says, the God who builds a road right through the ocean, who carves a path through pounding waves, The God who summons horses and chariots and armies— they lie down and then can’t get up; they’re snuffed out like so many candles: “Forget about what’s happened; don’t keep going over old history. Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? ...Because I provided water in the desert, rivers through the sun-baked earth, Drinking water for the people I chose, the people I made especially for myself, a people custom-made to praise me.”
Isaiah 43:16-21 MSG
Forget what’s happened before because I’m about to do something new! Could He be any clearer? The God of the Angel Armies tells us not to dwell, not to worry about the things past—last year—but to be concerned with what he is about to do. So even if 2017 was your best year ever or if it was the worst you could even imagine, put it behind you. Don’t dwell on it, it’s over. But conversely, focus yourself on what He is about to do, because it’s going to be something great.
The apostle Paul puts it like this:
“Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:13-14 NKJV
And my prayer for you this year is for you to be right in the big middle of what ever He is going to do—pressing toward the goal, right in the center of God’s amazing plan for you. If God can build a road through the ocean, surely He can direct us.
Have a wonderful God-filled 2018, reaching for the prize of the upward call, love you dear friend,
Pam
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