from Nehemiah 1:1-4, 2:1-5, 4:12-20, 8:1-10
In Isaiah 43:18-19a we read, “Forget the former things do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” In Revelation 21:5, we hear the words of Jesus captured by John, “He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’” Since the beginning, God has been in the business and the process of taking that which is broken, and rebuilding it…making it new!
While there is pain in what is lost, in what we have to be willing to let go of or what is stripped away from us, it is absolutely possible to find and experience God’s goodness in the healing that takes place when we begin to allow God to rebuild!
w/ Vern Collins