God's Glory Church

New. What a beautiful word. Fresh. Something never discovered before. Beginning.

Is this what you are looking for? To become new?

Isaiah 43:18-19 says, “Do not remember the past, do not dwell on the past. Look, I’m going to do something new, it’s coming. Don’t you feel it? I will pave a road in the desert, rivers in the waterless steppes.

The prophet Isaiah wrote his book about 700 years before the coming of Jesus. This passage was written to the Jews who are in captivity in Babylon and are desperate for deliverance. They were in physical as well as spiritual captivity. Sin – errors and untruths, which are the source of separation between man and God – reigned in human hearts, and no one could defeat it. But the exit was approaching.

The last part of the passage says: “I make a way in the desert, and rivers in a dry land.”

For the people lost in sin and separated from God, there was no way out on their own. But God opened the way by sending His Son Jesus as the perfect sacrifice and conqueror of sin, which man could not overcome alone. New. He came to make all things new.

Jesus is the way in the desert. He is a stream in the wasteland. He is the way when there is no way.

When you feel broken by your sin, caught in an addiction you can’t shake, overwhelmed by temptation, or frustrated by failure, you don’t need to put in any more effort. You need to upgrade. You need a way out. You need Him.

Jesus can renew you today. You don’t have to wait. You don’t have to try to cleanse yourself of your sin. Your transformation can begin today – and it begins with Jesus.