I Will Do a New Thing

The Path

This verse names a genuine, active work: I will do a new thing, specifically contrasted with remember ye not the former things, a needed instruction against allowing even genuinely significant former things, whatever they were, to prevent recognizing and receiving whatever new thing is actually, currently springing forth.

This is worth holding alongside this movement’s earlier caution against looking back, not as a contradiction, but as its natural extension. It is not merely that looking back is dangerous. It is that something genuinely new is actually, actively unfolding, worth your genuine attention forward, not merely worth avoiding the danger of glancing behind.

Notice now it shall spring forth, present tense, active, ongoing, not a distant future promise but a current, unfolding reality, shall ye not know it, suggesting genuine attentiveness is required to actually perceive this new thing already, currently springing forth, rather than remaining fixed on former things no longer the actual, current reality.

Whatever new thing may currently be springing forth in your own walking forward, ask today whether you have genuinely noticed it, or whether attention remains fixed on former things, however significant they once genuinely were. Watch, today, specifically, for the way in the wilderness, the rivers in the desert, he is actually, currently making.