When I say I am trying something new, it is usually a new food, a new outfit or a new habit I want to form. When God says that He is doing something new, it is an unimaginable totally new thing. After all, He is the Creator and can create new things from nothing.

So while I am trying on a new pair of shoes, God is changing the world for the better. A pathway through the wilderness? Yes, please! How many times have I felt stuck in a wilderness (usually of my own making) and walk in circles trying to find the way out (an answer to my prayer)? Meanwhile, God is right there creating a pathway and I have to open my eyes to see it. That’s the problem…God is always working but I am not always seeing what He is doing for me.

God’s new thing may not look the way I expect it will, but it will always be exactly what I (and you) need exactly when we need it. So, I exhort you to be ready, to look for that new thing that is not exactly what you were waiting for, but it is the answer you have been anticipating.