A New Thing!

16 This is what the Lord says—
    he who made a way through the sea,
    a path through the mighty waters,
17 who drew out the chariots and horses,
    the army and reinforcements together,
and they lay there, never to rise again,
    extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
18 “Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past.
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.
(Isaiah 43:16-19)
New Year's Eve... Looking back, looking ahead. Will it be the same old, same old? Or will God do a new thing?  Something we desperately want and need?  Often times we are so busy wallowing in the mud puddle, we do not look back to see the sea God has brought us through in the past.  And we forget His Character.  God will make a way; He will provide the refreshing we need; He will see us through the floods and storms and struggles.  He can and will do new things.  Will we stop and see them? Thank Him? Praise Him? Trust Him? Let's begin by pausing to thank and praise Him for the far past, the recent past, and the ever-present Holy Spirit Who will be with us as we welcome in the New.