“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” James 4:13-17
What do you suppose your life and it’s journey will be like in this new year? The world that we live in urges us to boast of our worldly achievements that ‘we’ have accomplished without help from anyone else; WE DID IT! Strive to do better, finish well for Him. Damn the pandemic!!!
Be the kind of person that when you sit up in bed and your feet hit the floor each morning, the evil foe says "Oh Crap, they’re up!" Life is too short to wake up in the middle of the night or early in the morning with regrets; love the people who encourage and strengthen you and forgive the ones who don't; just because you can and because Jesus forgives you. Believe that everything happens for a reason and if you are given a second chance, grab it with both hands. When you feel that your blood pressure is rising to the point of noticing a pulse throbbing in your neck and muscles are growing tense, take a few deep breaths, count to ten and think about how to finish well before you speak when you are becoming angry; forgive quickly. Our Heavenly Father never said life would be easy; He just promised it would be worth it and He will always be there with you.
There are over thirty-three thousand children like this child living in Haiti who are only receiving one meal a day and that is at their school; that is an important blessing. There are thousands more who are not eating regularly at their homes and don’t know Jesus; that is an opportunity for you to finish well while on your life’s journey. Please pray for these children and if the Holy Spirit moves you to feed a few of these children this year; please contact Trinity/HOPE.
Heavenly Father, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.