Isaiah 42:16 I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them and not forsake them.
Life can feel like we've taken one step forward and two steps back sometimes and we all know that can be very discouraging. So what do we do when that happens? Don't give up! Keep going forward in faith knowing God has promised to make a way where there is no way.
When the Israelites reached the Red Sea it looked like they'd gone as far as they could go and going back was not an option. Instead of sitting down in defeat they did what God told them to do - they kept going forward one step at a time and God cleared a path for them, despite the storm force gale that was blowing, which led to freedom!
God told the people that He would take them by a way they didn't know was there which means they hadn't passed that way before. Maybe you're passing through or dealing with something you've not had to deal with before and if so, be encouraged, because God has a path you don't know about yet and knows the way forward better than anybody so you can trust Him!
Have you got some dark places right now? Then take heart He's about to shine some light on them. Have things that are all messed up? Don't despair. God is going to take the things that are all crooked and twisted up and make them straight. But best of all He assures us He'll not forsake us no matter how dark and messed up things might look!
It all comes back to hope again, knowing and believing God has good plans and purposes for each of us, plans to prosper us and not to harm us so let's look up again, hold tightly to our faith in Jesus and keep taking one step at a time. He will bring us through. 😊
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