Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Yesterday is gone and there is nothing that can be done to change what has happened.
Lamentations 3:22-24 English Standard Version
22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;[a] his mercies never come to an end;
23 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:22 Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Because of the steadfast love of the Lord, we are not cut off
We have today because of His steadfast love. Yesterday is gone and we cannot relive it and to mourn it changes nothing.
Do we perceive the way to go in this wilderness we live in today? This is not our home. We are strangers in a foreign land, sojourners just traveling through time. The Lord does not wish us to live in regret and has given us a new beginning each morning, a gift to be cherished.
Is the Lord our portion or not? If He is, then why do we hope in anything else?
We live in this world that is corrupt and destitute of all hope in the kindness of mankind. They use, consume and build nothing but monuments in their own image. Vanities of vanities, it all crumbles in the end, waste and destruction that cannot outlast time’s corrosive nature.
We are living in the time of the prophecies and we cannot change them nor can we make them happen before their time. As much as we would like to see some of them happen in our lifetime, today is not ours to make but only to walk in according to the Way we are to walk.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Walk by faith in the Way set before us, in the truth that only He can reveal, in this life that He has made for us.
Anything else is vanity and vexation of spirit.