A faulty calendar
I looked at my calendar the other day and it said it was January 2013! Surely this is a mistake. Preparing to take it back to the newsagent and getting a proper calendar, I checked my phone and then my computer, and finally I asked a most trustworthy person – all these assured me that the calendar was accurate; it is January 2013!
Some of us are probably looking forward to certain events coming up this year. Some of us may be anxious about certain events we know we will be facing this year. Most of us probably have a mixture of both excitement and anxiety as we anticipate the highs and lows in the year ahead. For all of us, much of the year ahead remains a mystery.
James said, “Now look here, you people who say, ‘Today, or tomorrow, we will go to such-and-such town and spend a year there, and trade, and make some money.’ You have no idea what the next day will bring. What is your life? You are a mist which appears for a little while and then disappears again. Instead, you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live, and we shall do this, or that.’ ” (James 3:13-15)
What we can say with absolute certainty is this: God is closer to me, than I am to myself. This is not based on a feeling or positive wishful thinking. This is based on God’s own promises.
“I will never, ever, leave you or forsake you” promises Hebrews 13:5. Continuing (in v.6) it says “That’s why we can be cheerfully confident, and say ‘The Lord is helping me; I’m not going to be afraid; what can anyone do to me?'”
My New Year’s resolution is to take God’s promise as a statement about what is true, and then live accordingly.
What about you?
˄DA