Twenty-Twelve
11 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
Well, it’s Twenty-twelve, that’s how we were instructed to pronounce it in church on New Year’s Day by Josh’s youth pastor who was preaching. Not two thousand and twelve or even two thousand twelve because those just aren’t cool. Twenty-twelve. You know, the word twelve is starting to look funny to me.
Anyway.
We’ve put away all the Christmas decorations so the new year has officially begun. A time to begin again; forget about the past but take the lessons learned into the future. Throughout 2011 and especially lately, I have been drawn to a passage, Isaiah 43 specifically verses 18 & 19, which were used in that same New Year’s Day sermon.
I feel like I need a disclaimer right here: I am a miserable, wretched sinner and I have no business quoting scripture since I don’t make much time to actually read it let alone change my wicked behavior. What I’m trying to say is, I am a hypocrite. But even God can redeem this hypocrite.
Let’s move on.
But forget all that—
it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.
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 43:18-19
He is going to do something new! Not only that but He is already doing it! I have been wandering through an angry wilderness but He will make rivers and paths. In fact, He’s been making them all along. I think I can finally see it through my self-centered point of view. Oh, I have a long way to go. It is a journey, isn’t it?
This new year, twenty-twelve, I don’t have a list of resolutions. Sure, I have some hopes and plans, but beyond that I want to make what I know in my head finally be real in my heart. I’m scared. I know my nasty human nature will fail over and over again (and I despise that about myself) but I want to believe that God is there making a way, providing refuge, and redeeming my time in the desert. I want to lay bare my soul, quit doubting His goodness, and see what God is going to do with this hypocrite.
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