DSW - JANUARY 2024 - "BEHOLD"
As I pondered the topic for this month's Daily Scripture Writing Plan with the New Year being just around the corner, my mind kept going back to this passage: "BEHOLD, 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." Isaiah 43:19 To some degree, isn't a New Year a sort of wilderness & desert? No one can know what the future holds, and that is especially evident going from one year into the next while looking back upon the closing year. Pondering Isaiah 43:19 caused me to keep coming back to the word, "BEHOLD." Dictionary.com defines the word, "behold" in this manner: verb (used with object): to observe; look at; see. interjection: look; see: This word is used in the Bible to draw attention to the passage it is used in, sort of like the way the word "therefore" is used to draw the reader into the passage and see what it is "there for...