The New Year
Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas? Good! Well, what I mean is, if you did that is wonderful, and if you didn’t that will leave something to look forward to in the year to come.
As we face the New Year, we have tendency to focus on the past year and all that we have achieved or failed to achieve. That could be a worthwhile process. But, what is certainly better is to look forward to the possibilities of 2019. Once again a clean slate, as far as success is concerned, is spread before us. We have not made any mistakes, no failures dog our path, and unlimited triumph is available. That may seem like hyperbole, but only because we keep remembering and/or reviewing the past.
One of the principles we must learn and apply is that past “failure to be obedient” to the call, design, walk, and leadership of God’s Spirit is not binding or restrictive in our life from this day forward. We can begin again with a clean, contrite heart, and a hearing ear, the journey of obedience that leads to victory in the details of life.
We have tasted that victory! We have smelled the sweetness of Spiritual success! We have heard His voice and followed Him. We have crossed from darkness to incredible light! We are His Chosen Generation, His Peculiar People, a Royal Family of Believers who have limitless grace, unfathomable llove, sufficiency in all things, peace surpassing understanding, and joy that comes from daily new mercies!
Nothing stands in our way! Even the gates of Hell cannot prevail against us! Yet all of those words are “just words” if we allow lethargy and apathy to invade our life, dull our hearing, and fill our ears with the sounds that drown out His “still, small voice.”
It’s a New Year! Of what are we capable” We can’t possibly know, but we can find out!
Lets’s do it!!
One Comment
Dave Cleveland
Daily new mercies, indeed. Can’t do without them. Would hate to have to try.