Isaiah 43:19 (KJV)

What does this mean?

God says He is doing something new — something so fresh that His people may not even recognize it yet. He can make a road through the wilderness and rivers in the desert, places where no path should exist. This was first spoken to Israel in exile, a people who could see no way home.

What does this teach us?

The original message speaks to God's promise of restoration for His people: when life feels barren, difficult circumstances do not limit God's power. He does not only repair the old road — He makes a new one. What looks impossible to us is the very place His new work begins.

How can we apply this?

Look at the place in your life that feels like a wilderness — a broken relationship, a dead end, a dry season — and ask God what new thing He might be doing there. Take one step toward the new thing instead of circling the old one. Stop deciding in advance what God cannot do.

Related KJV passages

• “When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.”

  Isaiah 43:2

• “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

  2 Corinthians 5:17

• “It 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.”

  Lamentations 3:22-23