Forget!
Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. 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. Isaiah isn't saying to have amnesia or to be blinkered about the past. He is saying to not let the past to define us. We're not to be so preoccupied with how we've got somewhere that we can't see where God is taking us. God's people found themselves in a bad place. They were captive in the wilderness of Babylon. Isaiah urged them not to despair. We as God's new covenant people aren't instantly beamed up to glory. Instead, we find ourselves feeling like we're deserted in this spiritually barren world. We're not to despair. The narrow path of life cuts through the wilderness. God sustains us on the way with the water of life which is the Lord Jesus himself, by his Spirit. We may have been through a lot, but 'it'll be r...