Isaiah 43:19, “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.”

Don’t get so locked in to the way you have always done things or the way you have always seen God do things that you can’t see when He is calling you to something new!  It may be time to stir up those old dreams God put in your heart years ago that you figured you must have heard wrong or somehow you missed it.  

Every day is a new day, fresh with no mistakes and fresh with new opportunities to serve God on a new level if you are open to it.  What have you given up on or what have you been so locked into that you haven’t even opened your heart up to something new?  I love the story about the new bride who, as tradition in her family would have it, made a roast every Sunday for lunch.  One day her husband asked her what the purpose was in always cutting one end off of the roast.  She said, “well, that is the way my Mom always did it so I will ask her when they come over for lunch.”  That afternoon when they were all relaxing after lunch she asked and her Mom said, “well, that’s how My Mom always did it, so I have always done it that way too.”  At that moment the Grandmother piped up and said, “I cut the end off the roast because I didn’t have a roasting pan big enough for them to fit in!”  

Are you cutting off the end of the roast?  Are you just moving along in life never expecting God to do something fresh and new in your life?  Are you stuck in tradition?  Are you open to something new?  It is easy to develop the mindset that somehow once God starts doing something a certain way in your life that it will always be done that way, but God is so much bigger than that! You may have “outgrown” the way it has always been done and He wants to move you into something bigger and better, so let go of the old and allow Him to do a “new thing” in your life! If you want to be all He created you to be then you must be open to His guiding you into something different and something new! He loves you and His plan for your life is beyond what you may fully understand. Ask Him today to show you what He would have you do today, what is He wanting to change, and what are you possibly clinging so tightly to that it is holding you back?

God is always moving forward.  His desire is to walk closer and closer with you each day!  He has a plan for your life.  Don’t settle for where you are or where you have always been ask Him to show you that “new thing” He wants to do in and through you to bring Him glory and to draw others to Him!  Trust Him!  His best is truly yet to come!

Quote: “Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.”  ~ Will Rogers