Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Chuck the Rear View Mirror


 “For I am about to do something new.

See, I have already begun!

Do you not see it?

I will make a pathway through the wilderness.

I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.”

Isaiah 43:19 NLT





Perhaps you all have heard the illustration of the person who tries to drive forward by only looking in their rear view mirror.

It cannot be done!

Neither can you advance in life if all you do is attempt to relive the past.

God is doing a new thing in our day.

That does not mean God is moving outside of His character and His attributes.

Consider Acts 19:11 –

“God did extraordinary miracles through Paul,”

Now we all read the next verse and somehow tend to limit the word ‘extraordinary’ to the method through which God healed people at that moment in time through Paul’s ministry.

Handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched Paul were taken to the sick and God healed them.

God wants to do extraordinary miracles through each and every one of His children, but the method He uses may not be recorded in the book of Acts (or anywhere else in scripture).

How many times previously did we read of that method used to heal?

How many times after is it spoken of in the bible?

Don’t be afraid of the ‘new and extraordinary’ God wants to do.

Remember, He will never act contrary to His nature or His attributes.

But He will move powerfully through anyone willing to surrender their rear view living to the wide angle view of heaven coming to earth!



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