It’s that time again. Time to swap out new calendars for old. Time to sing Auld Lang Syne, and watch the glittering ball drop. It’s a time of resolutions, seldom kept, and praying for better days ahead. It’s the time to step from the old year into the new. Yes, hard as it is to believe, the old year is mere hours from limping into the archives to join his predecessors, making way for the baby New Year to take over.
I have to tell you, I’m not sorry to see the old year limp away: it wasn’t very kind. Yet, as I stand at this point in time, with one foot at the ready to step over the threshold into the New Year, I am able to recognize God’s hand at work. For my family and myself: as well as many of you, this has been a year of loss and grief, pain and anguish, and as recently as Christmas day…incredible fear. There were times I wondered if God honestly had a handle of things. It has also been a year of great blessings and miracles.
I have to tell you, I’m not sorry to see the old year limp away: it wasn’t very kind. Yet, as I stand at this point in time, with one foot at the ready to step over the threshold into the New Year, I am able to recognize God’s hand at work. For my family and myself: as well as many of you, this has been a year of loss and grief, pain and anguish, and as recently as Christmas day…incredible fear. There were times I wondered if God honestly had a handle of things. It has also been a year of great blessings and miracles.
They say hindsight is 20-20, and I have to agree. Often, it is only in looking back with this renewed sight that we are able to see God’s handiwork, His blessings, His miracles. My go to scripture is, Philip. 4:13. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” A former pastor explained that in ancient Hebrew this would have read, “I can endure all things…” We are able to endure the hardships of life, not through our human strength, but rather through and with the strength of Christ. He promised that He would be with us always, He would never leave us nor forsake us. I honestly can’t imagine enduring life without Him, without His love and strength. Can you?
Yes, it’s that time of year again: time to step into a new, and uncertain year. Not one of us knows what our future holds. Oh we may have plans made, and think that we have our future mapped out, but then life happens. Surprise! Thankfully, while we may not know what this New Year may bring for us, we can know with certainty that our future rests in God’s all-powerful hands. Does He have a handle on things? Yes!
Yes, it’s that time of year again: time to step into a new, and uncertain year. Not one of us knows what our future holds. Oh we may have plans made, and think that we have our future mapped out, but then life happens. Surprise! Thankfully, while we may not know what this New Year may bring for us, we can know with certainty that our future rests in God’s all-powerful hands. Does He have a handle on things? Yes!
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