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The Great Resignation

Isaiah 43:19 (MSG) “Be alert, be present. I am about to do something brand new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.”

Resignation.  This is the word that we are hearing at an unprecedented rate in 2022.  Employees that you never expected to change jobs are resigning from the company they have worked at for years and going to find something new. This reminded me of Isaiah 43:19, “I am about to do something brand new”. Brand new things are happening, not just for the employees that are leaving but for the new employees that are taking their places. For the companies that are experiencing the turnover and for the companies that are hiring new people.

I love this quote:  

“Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.” ~ Author Unknown

Personally, our company has lost about 10% of our colleagues in the first quarter of 2022 to resignation and it feels like we are in the middle of a storm. But are we? Perhaps God is moving things out of our path to make way for something brand new. To me, the idea that a storm will clear away things that we never would have moved on our own has God written all over it. I would never have wished for these people to leave our company, but God has a plan, and that plan is good. Good for them and good for us.

So maybe, just maybe, the storm you are in right now was not sent to block your path. Maybe it was sent to clear out the unnecessary things that are lying in your path, the driftwood and rubble that has started to pile up and over time and has become an obstacle. Romans 8:28 says that “All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.” Yes, even a storm can be used for good. Because maybe, just maybe, God is doing something new and that is exciting.

Lord, thank you for sending the storms. Your ways are not my ways, but your ways are better. So, I trust you, Lord, to clear my path and to lead me to something brand new. Amen

Something Brand New

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Isaiah 43:19 (MSG) “Be alert, be present. I am about to do something brand new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road through the desert, rivers in the badlands.”

“Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.” ~ Author Unknown

I saw this quote online a few weeks ago and it really stuck with me. To me, the idea that a storm will clear away things that we never would have moved on our own has God written all over it. So, I started to think back over the storms in my life and I tried to look at them in a different way. For example, when after three years my position was eliminated at the first job in my career, I was devastated. I was young, I had loved my job, and I did not know what to do. But looking back I can see that leaving that job cleared a path for me to find a sales job at a hotel and that lead me to find the faith-based company that I work for today. I have been working there for 23 years now and I have the most amazing work family.

“Be alert, be present. I am about to do something brand new.” That is what God says in Isaiah. But how can He do something new in your life if you are surrounded by clutter & distractions? Maybe the storm you are in right now was not sent to block your path. Maybe it was sent to clear out the unnecessary things that are lying in your path, the driftwood and rubble that has started to pile up in your life and over time and has become an obstacle to you. Maybe this storm was sent to clear away all the things that you were doing that kept you busy and kept you away from Jesus.

Lord, thank you for sending the storms. Your ways are not my ways, but your ways are better. So, I trust you, Lord, to clear my path and to lead me to something brand new. Amen