Staff Devotionals

Path in the woods

Walking there frequently

Derecho

2 paths

now the new path is so well developed that maybe we just go on that path instead of the old one

Flash back and flash forward

flashed-back to this scripture

Isaiah 43:14–19 NRSV

14 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I will send to Babylon and break down all the bars, and the shouting of the Chaldeans will be turned to lamentation. 15 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King. 16 Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, 17 who brings out chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: 18 Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. 19 I am about to do 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.

In the passage God is speaking through Isaiah to the people to not dwell just on the good that God has done in the past, but on the new ways that God is making a way in the wilderness even now.