O Lord, I will honor and praise your name, for you are my God. You do such wonderful things! You planned them long ago, and now you have accomplished them. (Isaiah 25:1)

Read: Isaiah 25:1-28:13, Galatians 3:10-22, Psalm 61:1-8, Proverbs 23:17-18

Relate: Moving to Binghamton the first time (nearly twenty years ago) was a bit of a big deal for me. It was some time this week, back in ’01 when I signed the lease on that first apartment. I was still committed to working in Webster as a youth pastor through the end of the month, but my mind and my heart were already gone. I was leaving behind a decent, safe job as a youth pastor in a nice neighborhood to go live in an unfamiliar city working with an unfamiliar demographic for no pay as Chi Alpha leader for a group that almost didn’t even exist anymore.

Technically, the group was still…