God’s New Thing This Year

Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?

As we enter into this new year, it’s only natural to want to reflect back over the previous year and consider what was accomplished. That’s true in our professional life as well as our personal life. It’s also true in our spiritual life. How much time did I spend in God’s Word? How consistent was I in my prayer life? Did my giving reflect my heart for God? Was Sunday School/Worship a priority?

So? How was your spiritual life last year? And what changes are necessary to take it to the next level this year? What did you see God do this year? Not only in you and through you, but around you?

It is good to reflect on the last year. We can learn much from it. But if you continue dwelling on the old things God has done, you’re not going to see the new things God has planned for you in 2022. Focusing on the past tends to blur our focus on the future. In other words, it’s hard to see in front of you when you’re constantly looking behind you!

That’s what Paul was talking about in Philippians 3:13-14, ”Brethren, I do not count myself to have attained; 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 calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

So let us not live in the past but look to the future. The key is to know God has “a new thing” for you in 2022. A ”new thing” that’s bigger, that’s better, that’s greater, that’s mightier than what you saw Him do last year in you, through you and around you.
Chaplain Tom Love