a new thing

A friend reminded me of this verse tonight while at our Cycle Breakers Life Group.  She encouraged us that God doesn't want us to dwell on the past but to see/perceive the good new thing he is doing.  

I tend to gravitate to the New Living Translation for easy application, but there are many words found in other translations that I just loved.  Enjoy!

Isaiah 43:19 (NLT)

¹⁸ “But forget all that—
    it is nothing compared to what I am going to do.

 ¹⁹ 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.

(NIV)

¹⁸ “Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past. 

¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.

(ESV)

¹⁸ “Remember not the former things,
    nor consider the things of old. 

¹⁹ 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.

(NKJV)

“Do not remember the former things,
Nor consider the things of old. 

¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.