It’s the start of a New Year, and many of us our thinking about what will shape this coming year. Some of us are setting out goals for ourselves. Some are thinking of the one word that they want to describe 2014. For those who are children of God there is only one Person who can direct our thinking about a space in time. He is the creator of time. His Word says that He is the same “yesterday, today and forever”, He is the only good, kind, slow to anger, abounding in love, gracious, merciful, holy, true, all-powerful, all-knowing, present everywhere, perfect and majestic King of 2014.
As citizens of His kingdom, here are 14 things we can count on this year:
1. We have a “lamp for our feet and a light to our path” (Ps. 119:105).
2. We won’t lack any good thing (Psalm 23).
3. Goodness and mercy will follow us every day (Ps. 23).
4. “Shouting for joy to the Lord” is what we were created for (Ps.33).
5. Our King will not abandon us (Joshua 1:5).
6. We can be “strong and courageous” because our Lord is with us (Josh 1:9).
10. Forgiveness is available to us when we confess it to Him (1 Jn. 1:9).
11. The Holy Spirit will empower us as we rely on Him (John 16:13,14).
12. There is work that has been prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10).
13. When we stay connected to the vine, we will be fruitful (John 15).
14. When we follow Jesus, He will “make us fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19).
We have an eternal inheritance that can never be taken away from us (1 Peter 1:4). Let’s press on to “take hold of that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of us.” (Phillipians 3:14) What we gain from living for Jesus is better than any fireworks or New Year’s Celebration…it’s heavenly, and that is something more impressive that we can ever even begin to describe. No matter what comes our way in 2014 our God will never change, so let’s let Him define it.
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