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 43:19 ESV

I had my latest scan results last week and unfortunately it was bad news.  The latest treatment had failed and the cancer had spread to multiple sites around my body.   This was a big shock to us because we were convinced it was working and I was just recovering.

As we were discussing the way forward with my consultant, he said there was a new drug to try which had just been approved the day before.  I saw this as an amazing provision from God.  It seems God has already made a way when all else has failed.

This, of course, leaves us with really mixed feelings.   On the one hand we have the face up to the facts that conventional solutions aren’t working and the prognosis has got worse.   There are lots of implications that go with that, not least of which is the prospect that no treatment is working and the options are running out.  On the other hand, God always seems to provide a way even when the odds seem impossible.

This verse reminds me that God can always find a way for us even when our understanding of a situation make it seem impossible.  These things often live in tension within us, the facts versus our faith in the God of the impossible.

I have to choose faith while still facing the facts before me.  I do this because God has never let me down, He has always come through for me, He has always made a way.  Even when I have gone my own way, done my own thing and made stupid mistakes, God has always given me a way out and made things right (1 Corinthians 10:13)

This is the testimony of my salvation.  I put my faith in Jesus because he made a way for me.  Even when I was lost and far from God, when I couldn’t see what the point of life was.  When I couldn’t see how I could be happy or enjoy the life I had been given, He showed me the way.

He has changed my heart and given me plans and purpose in my life.  He has shown me such love and grace.  He has revealed his fathers heart for me.  He has put people around me that love me and want the best for me.  He has given me a hope for my future and an eternity with him.  This is an inheritance that I could never have earned myself.  I can call myself a child of God because He has made a way.