September 12, 2021
A NEW THING
Reverend Wade Halva
Volunteer, Illinois
"Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do 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 43:18-21
To travel with MMM was to do a new thing. To travel far from home, to drive stick, to drive on the left side of the road, to be absurdly wealthy by comparison to those I was working with, to explore new landscapes, and to meet new friends. It was a new thing that God was clearly driving.
Driving, God makes a way in the wilderness, for a truck with an uncertain driver, for a truck at all, in a land where bicycles and foot traffic are the modes of travel, and for the love of Christ made real in the flowing of clean water from just below the surface up a 4 inch pipe into buckets of many colors.
Watching the t-handle pump go up and down, and up and down, and up and down, and the sound of water climbing the pipe, the new thing was springing forth, flowing forth, bursting forth for a village, a community, many families. Cheering begins to break forth, and song, jubilation, and hope. A river of clean water drains out of the apron of the well, dripping from the dusty hands of the beloved of God who drink deeply from the water of life.
It is a new thing. And eventually the old thing will be forgotten, to be told as a “once upon a time,” or a precautionary tale, or as “you don’t know how good you have it.” The new thing doesn’t stay in the village. It roots itself deep in me, deep in us, as we travel to the next village, the next well, the next guest house, the airport home, and into the rest of the world.
Application Question: What is the new thing bursting forth that you see, hear, taste, feel, or experience?
Prayer: God who names me your child in the waters of baptism, may your will and your work be visible to me, and visible in me. May your love and grace burst forth and gush out, even in the wildernesses of my life, and may I drink deeply of the new life given to me. Amen.
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