In a few days the words will be said again and again throughout the world…Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
I do hope and pray for a Happy New Year for my family, friends and loved ones, for our country, for the world, but I realize that it will only be happy to the degree that we (each group) looks to and places our ultimate trust in our great God. Every time I trust in myself, in my abilities, in something or anything else I am setting myself up for misery.
As we approach 2008 one of my prayers is simply that the Holy Spirit would gently reveal all of those areas where I have been hoping in something other than God and then enable me to repent of that sin and trust HIM alone in that part of my life.
It’s not something that I think about doing, it just seems to be my default setting…when things get crazy all of a sudden I begin working in my own power. A few days or, some times, weeks later I realize what has happened. My passion this year, my prayer this year is that as I hope in our great God for everything, HE will begin to conform me to HIM and HE will transform my default setting to trust HIM.
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the Lord his God, Who made heaven and earth, The sea and all that is in them; Who keeps faith forever; Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free. The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; The Lord raises up those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous; The Lord protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked. The Lord will reign forever,
Your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise the Lord!
I am constantly amazed at how patient HE is with me, HE is so loving, tender, patient and compassionate.
How happy we will be in 08 if we TRUST HIM as our help, our hope, our everything.
Pursuing HIM together in 08