Perry and Shawna bring the hope of God’s promise that he is doing a new thing and now it springs up (Isa. 43).  First the new thing comes as we see the lies we believe for what they are:  Lies!  And then as we begin to believe the truth and reject the lies, the new things breaks out.  Then the new thing comes as we realize that the God who has rescued us in the past is the same yesterday, today and forever, and the new thing is him rescuing us again and continuing to rescue us till we see him face to face.  And finally the new thing doesn’t come in an instant, it’s the process of suffering, then patient endurance of that suffering, then proven character produced in the patient endurance of suffering, giving way finally to hope, to a newer, deeper experience of the salvation in Jesus.  Share if you’re encouraged by this!