THE UPPER ROOM 13 MARCH 2024 DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE
Read The Upper Room 13 March 2024 Devotional Message for Wednesday wriiten by Tracie Heskett (Washington, USA)
TOPIC: In God’s Time
TODAY’S READING
Isaiah 43:14-21
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. – Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV)
One spring during my morning walks, I noticed my neighbor building a brick walkway from his porch to the street. Gradually over several weeks, I watched as he prepared the ground, poured gravel, and laid bricks. Then for some reason I could not perceive, I saw that he had ripped up half the path and piled the bricks in his yard. Eventually, the path was completed, and the mess was cleaned up. If I had not been paying attention, the finished path might have seemed to appear overnight. But I had witnessed the process: the planning, measuring, waiting, ripping up, and restarting.
The construction of my neighbor’s walkway illustrates that sometimes things don’t happen overnight — even when God is doing something new in our lives and inviting us to grow from it.
Isaiah 43:18-19 reminds me to keep my eyes open for how God is at work in my life.
Growth is a process — one step at a time. We can trust that God is always doing something new. As we become more aware of God’s presence, we can watch for the new things God is doing, give thanks, and proclaim God’s great work.
TODAY’S PRAYER
Dear God, we praise your name and proclaim the new and wondrous works you do in our lives. Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
God is always doing something new in my life.
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