How New will the New Year be for YOU?
What will 2015 bring to us? Does anyone really know? Can anyone predict the future with 100% accuracy? Certainly no human being on planet earth today is able to tell the future with pinpoint precision. It is simply impossible to know what the next holds, or even the next month, day or minute. We simply plan and progress through the year trusting the Lord.
What we can know with 100% accuracy is what happened in 2014. We can look back over the year that behind to see what happened and what we did in light of it. New Years Eve is a good time to reflect upon the past year. Today or tomorrow take time to reflect and then make plans for the year ahead. See what you did well and decide to strengthen that area. See what you didn't do well and decide to improve that area. You and I have an opportunity each year to make changes in our directions that would better honor the Lord. Yet, remember, you can make changes anytime throughout the year. It's just that at the beginning of the year it is as natural time to do it.
James, the brother of Jesus, says in his Epistle, "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away." (4:13-14) While it is good, proper and godly to make plans and to seek to accomplish those plans, we need to be sensitive to the Lord's will. Maybe the Lord would want to change our plans or cancel our plans. Because He alone is the Wise One, we need to be ever aware of His will first.
As you enter 2015 let me encourage you to do what James says a little earlier in chapter four. In chapter four verse 8 he says, "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you." Being close to the Lord we can be assured that we can hear His voice and feel His hand upon our shoulders. If His desire to change our course of actions, being close makes it simple. Be sure, therefore, that you spending time in God's Word and presence. Pray, pray, pray throughout 2015 for His directions and blessings.
Will 2015 be a "Happy New Year"? Only if we walk in obedience to His will will we experience His joy in our hearts. Make 2015 a joyful year by drawing close to Him.
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