Make sure you have first read New Winged Part I
“Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.”
Isaiah 43:18-19 NKJV
I can remember when I made my first steps back into a relationship with Christ. I was extremely nervous, anxious, and misinformed.
I was afraid that God was going to punish me for all my worldly wrongdoings. I thought He had a list like Santa Claus and was checking it waiting for me to accept Him, so He could hold me accountable for all the wrong choices, and bad decisions I had made in my life. I truly had no idea of what being forgiven or having forgiveness in God really meant. I would go to church, read my word, try to do as many good deeds as possible hoping that in some way I was making things better for myself. I walked around waiting for the bomb to drop, and for me to have to pay for all the horrible things that I knew I had done, and even those things I wanted to act like weren’t a part of my reality. I quickly learned through the fellowship of other saints that God is a forgiving God, and that He cast, tosses, throws our sins into His sea of forgetfulness, and remembers them no more.Whew!!! Thank you, Lord! Cause otherwise, I might have a lot of explaining to do.
God is so merciful just, and kind that He wants to bless us. He desires nothing more than to grant us the things we need most but many times we block our own blessings by either going back to our old situations
"God is a forgiving God, and that He cast, tosses, throws our sins into His sea of forgetfulness, and remembers them no more."
or behaviors, or we just get stuck and can’t move forward. Therefore, God reminds us to mimic Him, and as it says in Isaiah 43:18 “Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old.” Because God has a master plan to do something new in you. It is very difficult to move forward and do new things when you are constantly plagued by old things.
A major trick by the enemy is that he uses guilt to hold us back and down. Guilt can fester in our mind and create a vicious cycle of not moving forward. You will be either like a dog chasing its tail, or a dog returning to its own vomit. When you are chasing your own tail simply means you find yourself in the same cycle of events doing the same things but expecting different outcomes. If you are returning to your own vomit, you have gotten rid of something that was no longer a fit for your life yet, you keep trying to make it fit because guilt won’t allow you to make a clean break.
I have discovered that even if change is good, that no one likes to change. It makes us uncomfortable to not know if this change, this new way of being, acting, or thinking is going to work. Usually we resist change even though God has expressed in Isaiah 43:19 that “I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert”. This means God already knows how uncomfortable we will be being placed in a new space, so He reassures us that regardless of what it looks like to you, if it looks like a destitute wilderness God is there, if it looks like a dry desert God is saying I am there, and I am even sprouting rivers so you won’t even need to be concerned about being thirsty. God wants us to be reassured in this new walk with Him, that no matter what the path may look like, He is always there to make any situation you must face pleasant and peaceful for you.
"God already knows how uncomfortable we will be being placed in a new space, so He reassures us that regardless of what it looks like to you.....I am there"
In II Corinthians 5:17 the word says, “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have become new.” Embrace the new you. The new mindset that is taking over will battle with the old mindset if you don’t embrace the new.
Put people in perspective. If you allow people to constantly pass judgment on you and your former ways, you will go right back to that sin cycle and be stuck in guilt and can’t move forward because you will begin to believe you are not worthy. God says once you accepted Christ, nothing about you is the same. You need to reintroduce yourself to the world as who you were really meant to be, because until you have God leading you and Christ keeping you daily don’t be ashamed because you had no idea who you were. Now that you are with God and Jesus Christ walk boldly into your future, speak of His everlasting goodness, and how the Holy Spirit provided peace when you needed it, joy when you needed it, and God’s over abundance of love the rest upon you daily. God has always desired good and perfect things for our lives, but the enemy worked over time to derail us from the wonderful future God had. Now that you are with Christ building a solid relationship and an even stronger foundation embrace your new walk, and let God continue to make ways out of no way.
Key thought: Don’t let the enemy hold you into a pattern of guilt in your mind or from other people. Whom Christ has set free, is free indeed. Walk in your newness and let God bless you every step of the way.
Prayer: Oh Lord who created the heavens and the earth as you are doing a new thing in my heart, my life, and my mind. Help me to receive and walk in your goodness, and never look back or desire the old. I am grateful to you Father God for your grace and mercy, may you constantly Lord guide me every step of the way, In Jesus Name Amen.
