Our Lord and our God. We joy in You. Without Your Help we could not face unafraid the year before us.

I stand between the years. The light of my presence is flung across the years to come -  The radiance of the Sun of Righteousness. Backward, over the past years, is My shadow thrown, hiding trouble and sorrow and disappointment.
Dwell not on the past- Only on the present. Only use the past as the trees use My Sunlight to absorb it, to make from it in after days the warming fire-rays. So, store only the blessings from Me, the Light of the world. Encourage yourselves by the thought of these. Bury every fear of the future, of poverty for those dear to you, of suffering, of loss. Bury all thought of unkindness and bitterness, all your dislikes, your resentments, your sense of failures, your disappointment in others and in yourselves, your gloom, your despondency and let us leave them all, buried and go forward to a new and risen life. Remember that you must not see as the world sees. I hold the year in My Hands-in trust for you. But I shall guide you one day at a time. Leave the rest with Me. You must not anticipate the gift by fears or thoughts of the days ahead. And for each day I shall supply the wisdom and the strength.

Thought for Today Beloved - today the Holy Spirit reminds us of who we are: -Those who go forward not backward. We look where we are going, not where we have been. What will it happen to a man who would drive the car looking only in the rear view mirror? Will he not die before it is over? Beloved - know this picture reflects our spiritual walk. If any man allows himself to be controlled by the thoughts of the past, he becomes like a dead walking man - Bad memories of the past prevents living the present. Let us remember that we cannot change where we have been but we can change where we are going. Today, shake off those memories, put on a mantle of praise and thank God who says 'For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11  Home

"But one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead." (Philippians 3:13)