Happy New Year

Tonight we leave 2018 behind. What is ahead of us we don’t know but we serve a living God who knows all, sees all and moves on our behalf. He knows the plan He has for us. Jeremiah 29:11 “ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

New beginnings bring many emotions. We can be excited for new experiences or dread what lies ahead. We can bring all our baggage into the new year and be loaded down with all our failures and mistakes or we can choose to leave them behind and move on trusting God’s promises.

We all fail. We all make mistakes. WE ALL NEED HOPE FOR A NEW BEGINNING. Our hope is in Jesus! We look expectantly for His return and a brand new life. “But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.” 2 Peter 3:13

One day He will make all things new. Revelation 21:5 “And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He *said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”

Once we trust in Jesus our past is covered by the blood. In God’s eyes it is far removed, “as far as the east is from the west.” (Psalms 103:12) We are the ones who carry it around.

It takes courage to move on. Real courage has been defined as doing something in spite of our fears. That kind of courage comes only by God’s grace moving in our lives. The grace which says, ‘I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13

This year I pray we will commit to moving forward in the work Jesus left for us to do. Pressing onward to our upward calling.

Philippians 3:13-15 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are [a]perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you,”

God Bless each of you in this New Year 2019.

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