Making A Fresh Start
Wednesday January 11, 2017
This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118:24 NKJV)
How many times in the dysfunctional dark days of our addiction and life-without-God did we wake up and wish that we had not? Life without God was tiresome. Problems loomed large in front of us. Circumstances were out of control. We felt abandoned and unable to cope with another day of the same old stuff. We wondered what it would take to stop the cycle. At that time, God in His grace was drawing near to us and somehow, in the middle of our insanity, we decided to turn our will and our lives over to God as we understood Him. As we make this fresh start we soon become aware that we can find joy in each new day God gives us.
I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:19-23 NIV)
We are still in the early days of this New Year and not one of us know how the year will end. We are treading an unknown path as we go forward. In a wartime speech, King George VI included the following encouraging words in his Christmas broadcast: ‘”I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”, and he replied, “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God, that shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way.’”
In these early weeks of the new year, with many unknown days before us, let’s determine to put our hand into the hand of God and wholeheartedly follow Him in all our ways.
Prayer – Heavenly Father, You have given me this new day, help me to rejoice and walk hand in hand with You until its close. I am forever grateful that You will never leave me nor forsake me. AMEN
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