Forget and Remember

This familiar passage in Isaiah 43 was part of my Bible reading plan yesterday. I made a note on the page on the second day of January this year.

We were chest-deep in unknowns then. It was a season of practicing daily forgiveness and trusting whispered promises in the midst of loud realities. Silencing the noise in my head was a daily discipline. The Word spoke to me that day... “Forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past.” Just a verse or two before, God was reminding us of what He had done and announcing who He is. I wrote, “Remember who God is.” It was a turning point moment for me.

Forget the things. Remember God.
He does new things while we are remembering Him.

Tonight is the eve of a new thing. Our first vision night for Church Home is tomorrow night. I incline my heart to heaven and can almost audibly hear the whisper, “...even now it is coming. Do you not see it?”

No matter what, I’m remembering God.

“I am the Lord, your Holy One, Israel’s Creator, your King.” This is what the LORD says—he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, 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: “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 43:15-19)