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Something has ended, and the new thing hasn't fully started yet. That in-between space is disorienting, sometimes grieving, sometimes thrilling. God is not confused about where you are. He specializes in the moments between what was and what's coming.
Get These Verses Daily β FreeβBehold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.β
God addresses a people who had lost everything they knew. The 'new thing' he announces uses a Hebrew word for something that never existed before β not a repair, but a genuinely unprecedented creation. And he asks whether you'll recognize it when it comes.
βTherefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.β
The Greek tense for 'are passed away' is aorist β a completed action. Paul isn't describing a process still underway. The old identity has already ended. The new creation isn't something you're becoming; it's something you already are, still being discovered.
βIt is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.β
Jeremiah writes this in catastrophe, not in a good season. The mercies he describes aren't feelings β they're the objective reality that the morning keeps coming. Every new day is God's active statement that the story isn't over.
βAnd he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.β
The present tense is significant β 'I make,' not 'I will make someday.' God speaks this at the end of all things, but the action he describes is ongoing. The God who makes all things new at the end is the same God working newness into your situation now.
βA new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.β
God doesn't promise to fix the old heart or improve it. He promises a transplant β something entirely replaced. The most fundamental new beginning isn't a change in circumstances but a change in the center of who you are.
New beginnings in Scripture rarely look like clean, celebratory launches. They usually involve an ending first β sometimes a painful one. Israel enters the promised land after forty years in the wilderness. The disciples receive the Spirit after the trauma of the crucifixion. Paul's transformation starts with three days of blindness. God's new things tend to emerge from places that look, from the outside, like collapse.
The promise in Isaiah 43:19 β 'Behold, I will do a new thing' β was spoken to a people in exile, who had lost everything they thought defined them as a nation. God announces newness into maximum loss, not into comfortable stability. The new thing comes when the old structures are gone and there's finally space for something unprecedented.
In Christ, newness becomes a present reality. Second Corinthians 5:17 says old things 'are passed away' β that's aorist tense in Greek, a completed action. The new creation isn't something you're building toward. It's something you already are, being lived into. New beginnings aren't just circumstances changing. They're an identity being unveiled.
Commentary is from a charismatic Protestant perspective, drawing on KJV text and public-domain sources including Spurgeon, Andrew Murray, and Matthew Henry.
Isaiah 43:19 contains a Hebrew word that the English translation softens. The 'new thing' God promises uses the word αΈ₯ΔdΔΕ‘Γ’ β which isn't just 'different' or 'improved.' It's the same word used for the new moon, the first appearance of something that had no existence before. God isn't promising to fix what's broken. He's announcing something unprecedented.
The sentence that follows is often dropped from quotes: 'shall ye not know it?' That question is pointed and a little confrontational. God is asking whether you'll recognize the new thing when it arrives β or whether you'll be so focused on what was lost that you miss the road opening in front of you. The wilderness and the desert in that verse weren't metaphors; they were the literal geography Israel had walked through for forty years. The promise was that specific: a way through the exact place where there had never been a way before.
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