Something New

Background Story: Isaiah was a prophet called by God to communicate His words to the people of Israel.

Read Isaiah 43:14-19

This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“For your sake I will send to Babylon
    and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians,
    in the ships in which they took pride.
15 I am the Lord, your Holy One,
    Israel’s Creator, your King.”

16 This is what the Lord says—
    he who made a way through the sea,
    a path through the mighty waters,
17 who drew out the chariots and horses,
    the army and reinforcements together,
and they lay there, never to rise again,
    extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
18 “Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past.
19 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.

Big Idea: Our past does not have to dictate our future.

You make a cake, take it out of the oven, flip it onto a plate, and the cake cracks down the middle. Is it ruined? Should we just trash it and make another? A lot of us feel that way at times. When we look at our past or the things we struggle with, we feel like that cracked cake… broken, ugly, and unusable.

But you want to hear something amazing? A skilled baker can take icing and masterly cover all those cracks and imperfections to make that cake into something beautiful. 1 Peter 4:8 says that, “Love covers a multitude of sins.” God loves you so very much that He sent Jesus to take your place on the cross. And through His death and resurrection, God takes our broken selves and does what only the Creator can do. Not just making us better versions of ourselves… but He makes us into new creations! Forgiven, cleansed, restored, and ready for His purposes.

2 Corinthians: 17-20 says, ” This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.  For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

We don’t have to carry the shame of our past sins anymore! “We are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago” (Ephesians 2:10). We are new people with a new purpose… to know Christ and make Him known!

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