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Beginning a new year can be both exciting and daunting. If you have had a particularly trying and difficult previous year, you may enter a new year cautious and possibly even fearful. Will that illness rear its head again? Will my relationship be filled with pain again? Will I lose this job too? … the questions are endless depending on your situation.
Weary, worn and battle scarred … I have been there and I’m sure so have you. You may be there right at this moment. In those seasons, I have always found my strength in God, His word, and comfort. When nothing else seems stable … When nothing else seems to make sense … When all seems lost … God is still God. He is all knowing. That, right there, has seen me through so many situations. God is all knowing. So, what I can’t see, He does. What I don’t understand or know, He does. My God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is omniscience, omnipresent, sovereign, full of Grace, full of Love and full of Mercy. I can make it through, even in my lack of knowledge and pain, because He is God and I am not. In Romans 5:3-4 it states:
“We also glory in our sufferings, because we know suffering
Produces perseverance; perseverance, character;
And character, hope.”
As you move forward into 2016, move with confidence, move with perseverance no matter what you’re facing and you will find hope! Not hope in fleeting things, but hope in Jesus Christ that prevails over all things past, present and future.
Notes from Debbie's Desk 