See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? – Isaiah 43:19

What a time to be alive!  If you had told me a year ago that the world would be working through online schooling, wearing masks, and a global pandemic I wouldn’t have believed it.  If you had told me that we would be starting classes virtually and that the school year would begin without students arriving on campus I would tell you to “be serious.”  I don’t think I would have thought in a million years that 2020 would turn out the way it has.

Over the past month or so I have been drawn into the story of Exodus.  This is in part because our church in the USA has been doing a sermon series that is absolutely fantastic, but regardless the story has spoken to me during this time!

I can imagine Moses, fleeing Egypt, and looking back on his life while he tended his father in law’s sheep.  I can imagine him wondering how he ended up in this situation – going from part of Pharaoh’s household to watching over livestock.  It is no wonder, then, that when he meets God in the wilderness he doesn’t immediately jump at the chance to return to Egypt and confront an individual who was, arguably, one of the most powerful figures in the known world.  I imagine that his spirit was broken, his confidence gone, his drive to be successful a distant memory.  Instead, he contented himself with a life of watching sheep.  But God had other plans.

He did something new – created a new person out of this broken, weary soul.  A sheepherder became one of the most celebrated and powerful figures in Israelite history.  A person who was “slow of speech and tongue” (Exodus 4:10) stood in front of Pharaoh and commanded him to obey the words of Yahweh.  What a transformation!

This year is certainly a year of new things.  But if we are willing to put ourselves in God’s hands we can “approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16)

I look forward to taking this journey with you, and pray that you trust in Him to make things new!

 

Mike Lucero

Head of School