[Monday's Devotional] - It's Springtime!

“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?
There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.
Wild animals will say ‘Thank you!’   —the coyotes and the buzzards—
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 43:18-21  [The Message]

I love Isaiah, for me it’s a book full of promises that I have hung on to over the last 16 years and, in due season, I have seen the fulfilment of many in my life….. for others, as I’m sure you will relate to, I still wait.

In my experience it can seem we spend more time waiting than we do receiving, but God knows when the time is right. Paul also assures us:

 “for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up”
Galatians 6:9 [NIV]

A few weeks ago I was encouraged by a picture the Lord gave me of spring bulbs breaking through the cold, dark soil, having weathered the recent storms, now bursting into life  ….  a promise of new life and a fresh season of hope.

If right now you are feeling in a desert place, lost in the wilderness, badlands or wastelands, trust this prophetic promise:

“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? 
Isaiah 43: 18-19 [NIV]

Dawn Milward