Something New
“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
Yesterday, we saw a story of a young boy who had made a ceramic gift for his father. Unfortunately, the boy tripped and the gift broke and shattered into pieces. He was so heartbroken over what had happened with this gift. But afterward, his mother was able to help him turn what was once a ceramic gift into a multi-colored, beautiful butterfly.
Amazingly, what the little boy discovered was that the artwork was actually much more beautiful after the pain of the incident than it had been before it was broken. And the little boy who was inconsolable just moments before realized that something good could ultimately come out of his grief.
That story is a reminder that grief is real, and yes it hurts, but out of great loss, great beauty can emerge. God says in Isaiah 43:19, “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.”
There are times in life when we will suffer loss, and as a result, we will grieve. But that is not the end of the story. God can turn broken gifts into beautiful butterflies. Sometimes God allows one thing to end so that He can show us a new beginning. What He chooses to give and take away is always in our best interest.
As believers, our job is to trust Him and follow wherever He leads us. This does not numb us from grief; that is something we will still experience. But we can have hope knowing when something is lost, something is to be found! He is doing something new!
Yesterday, we saw a story of a young boy who had made a ceramic gift for his father. Unfortunately, the boy tripped and the gift broke and shattered into pieces. He was so heartbroken over what had happened with this gift. But afterward, his mother was able to help him turn what was once a ceramic gift into a multi-colored, beautiful butterfly.
Amazingly, what the little boy discovered was that the artwork was actually much more beautiful after the pain of the incident than it had been before it was broken. And the little boy who was inconsolable just moments before realized that something good could ultimately come out of his grief.
That story is a reminder that grief is real, and yes it hurts, but out of great loss, great beauty can emerge. God says in Isaiah 43:19, “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.”
There are times in life when we will suffer loss, and as a result, we will grieve. But that is not the end of the story. God can turn broken gifts into beautiful butterflies. Sometimes God allows one thing to end so that He can show us a new beginning. What He chooses to give and take away is always in our best interest.
As believers, our job is to trust Him and follow wherever He leads us. This does not numb us from grief; that is something we will still experience. But we can have hope knowing when something is lost, something is to be found! He is doing something new!
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