This morning I read a entry in my daily devotional reading that is worth sharing. This is from Dr. Caroline Leaf’s book, Switch on Your Brain Every Day. In the entry for Day 147 she references Isaiah 43:19 in the Modern English Version.

See, I will do a new thing,
now it shall spring forth; shall you not be aware of it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness, 
and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43; 19 MEV

Think of the way in the wilderness and the rivers in the desert as the neural pathways your thoughts create in your brain as you read her entry.

She writes, “When we pray, we pray not only for the future but also to change the past and to retell our story through the eyes of Jesus’ love. We can actually change our past by allowing the future of God’s hope to reach back into our lives. This is called retroactive causation, and it essentially shows us how “loveless” and prayer are beyond space and time. You never have to be a victim of what you have said or done or what others have said about you or done to you.

Every time you take your thoughts about your past captive to the obedience of Christ by replacing His truth, you create new neural pathways. You replace your past with the hope of the future in Christ.

As Dr. Leaf writes, “There is always hope. Regardless of the way you have chosen to react in the past, painful toxic thoughts can be reconstructed.”

With the help of the truth and hope of Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit, you can create “a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert” of your past and your mind.

Nothing is impossible with God. He has given you a truly amazing mind!.