“But forget all that—
it is nothing compared to what I am going to
do.
For I am about to do
something new...”
(Isaiah 43:18-19A NLT)
Isaiah was
encouraging Israel that God was on the move and about to do a new thing. But before they could receive the new they
had to forget the old. Sometimes we have to let go of the good to get God’s
best.
Remembering
God’s past faithfulness is proper as long as it does not hinder us from
experiencing the new plans He has for us.
Every renewal in church history has been resisted by the previous
one. The Charismatic movement of the
latter part of the twentieth century was opposed by the old line Pentecostals,
people of essentially the same theology.
We start to trust in our ways, means, and even theology more than God
Himself. God may move in one manner in
this generation, and a different way in the next. Which often gets our dander up. Why? We have deified God's methods in one season,
without considering He might do it differently in the next. Our sovereign Lord has a perfect plan for
every period of our lives. For everything
there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NLT). We should never allow ourselves to become
a prisoner of a positive past.
My brothers and
sisters in Christ, let go of those sacred cows and allow the Lamb of God to do
a new thing in your midst. Good is always
the worst enemy of God's best.
Ken Barnes, the author of “The Chicken Farm and Other Sacred Places” YWAM Publishing
Email: kenbarnes737@gmail.com
website: https://sites.google.com/site/kenbarnesbooksite/
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