“For men are not cast off by the Lord
forever. Though He brings grief, He will show compassion, so great is His
unfailing love.” Lamentations 3:31-32
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“Security from Yesterday. `God
requireth that which is past.’ At the end of the year we turn with
eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise
from remembering the yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God’s grace is apt to
be checked by the memory of yesterday’s sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He
allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of
spiritual culture for the future. God
reminds us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the present.
Security for Tomorrow. `For
the Lord will go before you.’ This is a gracious revelation, that God will
garrison where we have failed to. He
will watch lest things trip us up again into like failure, as they assuredly
would do if He were not our reward. God’s hand reaches back to the past and
makes a clearing-house for conscience.
Security for Today. `For
ye shall not go out with haste.’ As we go forth into the coming year, let
it not be in the haste of impetuous, unremembering delight, nor with the flight
of impulsive thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the
God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to
us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God
can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for
the future. Let the past sleep, but let
it sleep on the bosom of Christ.
Leave the
Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with
Him.” My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers. December 31st.
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“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is
the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow
tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to
the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and
weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will
renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and
not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40: 28-31
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