In With the New
Well, here we sit on January 1st, 2010 – a new year and a new decade await us like fresh snow untraveled or marred. I love the start of a new year – getting a new calendar, placing the family birthdays, new scheduled events and wondering what unexpected things the next months hold in store if the Lord delays His coming yet another year.
It is a great blessing to face each year, not with a sense of dread, but of hope and the certain knowledge that whatever comes my way, God will still be God and will remain in my heart and at my side to see me through. I face the year with new dreams and aspirations, with new goals and yes, a few “resolutions,” too. I know I will need God’s help to reach those goals, but I also need a good dose of self-discipline and determination.
My greatest desire is to be used of God to help someone in their walk with the Lord, to point the lost to the Saviour, and to become more like Him in my attitude, holiness, and day to day life. I desire to be a better husband & father, to be more faithful to my Lord, to love others in a greater way. Big dreams, high hopes, but with God’s help – nothing is impossible.
As you ponder the road ahead, this new year of 2010, consider carefully your stewardship of the life entrusted to you by the Lord. With His help and an abundance of His grace, we can make a difference in our life and the lives of those around us. May God bless you as you seek to follow Him this year.
Micah 7:7
7 Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
from the firing line…
Pastor Gordon Conner
