一位美式橄欖球明星四分衛踏上了一個不是體育場的舞台。他在美國佛州邁阿密市的大沼澤地懲教所，向三百名受刑人分享以賽亞書的信息。

不過，此時此刻並不是關乎一位著名運動員的精彩表演，而是關乎一群心靈受傷和破碎的人。在這特別的時刻，上帝顯現在這個監獄裡。一位觀察員發布推文說：「監獄禮拜堂迸發出敬拜和讚美。」囚犯和志工們一同流淚禱告，最後，約有27名受刑人將自己的生命獻給基督。

在某種程度上，我們都被關在自己建造的監獄裡，被困在貪婪、自私和成癮的牢籠裡。但奇妙的是，上帝親自顯現了。那天早上，在那座監獄裡，信息的金句是：「看哪！我要作一件新的事；現在它要發生了，難道你們還不知道嗎？」（以賽亞書43章19節，新譯本）這段經文鼓勵我們「不要記念從前的事，也不要思想古時的事」（18節），因為上帝說：「我也不記念你的罪惡。」（25節）

上帝明確表示：「除我以外沒有救主」（11節）。你我唯有將生命交給基督，才能得自由。我們之中有些人需要決志將生命交給基督；有些人雖已決志，但需要反思到底誰才是我們生命真正的主宰。我們確信，藉著基督，上帝確實會「作一件新的事」。那麼，就讓我們看看會發生什麼事吧！

A star quarterback in American football stepped onto a stage that wasn’t a sports stadium. He spoke to three hundred inmates in the Everglades Correctional Facility in Miami, Florida, sharing with them words from Isaiah.

This moment, though, was not about the spectacle of a famous athlete but about a sea of souls broken and hurting. In this special time, God showed up behind bars. One observer tweeted that “the chapel began to erupt in worship and praise.” Men were weeping and praying together. In the end, some twenty-seven inmates gave their lives to Christ.

In a way, we are all in prisons of our own making, trapped behind bars of our greed, selfishness, and addiction. But amazingly, God shows up. In the prison that morning, the key verse was, “I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19). The passage encourages us to “forget the former things” and “do not dwell on the past” (v. 18) for God says, “I, even I, am he who . . . remembers your sins no more” (v. 25).

Yet God makes it clear: “Apart from me there is no savior” (v. 11). It is only by giving our lives to Christ that we’re made free. Some of us need to do that; some of us have done that but need to be reminded of who the Lord of our life truly is. We’re assured that, through Christ, God will indeed do “a new thing.” So let’s see what springs up!