For the hours when the next step has no familiar shape.
“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
When God speaks of making a way in the wilderness, what do you assume your unfamiliar ground means? You may read the silence of the next opportunity as evidence that you have been forgotten. You are watching for an opening, but fear keeps naming the wilderness your future.
Your false refuge is the old map of your former job title. You want the past to tell you where you still belong. The command not to fixate on former things exposes more than nostalgia; it exposes your demand that yesterday explain tomorrow. A wilderness is not proof of abandonment.
God does not merely tell you to notice something new. In Christ, the incarnate Son enters the wilderness of human loss, bears judgment at the cross, and rises to give you living hope. The risen Christ intercedes for you while the path remains unclear. Ask the Spirit to loosen your grip on the old map and make you attentive to the next faithful step.
A wilderness is not proof of abandonment.
Lord Jesus, keep me from worshiping the old map, and teach me to notice your grace in this unfamiliar ground.
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