Looking Forward To The New Year

Looking Forward To The New Year

      Anyone who is planning to go on a journey is very wise if he or she makes preparation in advance. If he or she is going to be traveling by automobile, one is smart if he has his engine tuned up and the oil changed, and the fuel tank full. A prudent person will know where he is going, and how he is going to get there. He will have acquired road maps, and will have studied them diligently.

      So it is with our journey through life, every new day we strike out on a new adventure, not knowing what a day will bring forth. The sad thing with some of us is that when it comes to our daily trip through the activities and duties of each new day we have failed to make adequate preparations.

We who know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, need not venture out blindly into a wicked , hostile world without being fortified and strengthened for our journey. We have an open door to God our Father, who, if we ask anything in the name of his son, will deny us nothing that is good for us. Before we begin our day, we can rise up a great while before day and find a solitary place and get alone with God and pray, even as Jesus himself was known to do.

      “And in the morning, rising up great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place and there prayed” Mark 1: 35.

      If this was necessary for the very divine son of God to do to begin his day on earth as a man among men, how much more is it necessary for us to begin our new day, or a new year by seeking divine guidance from above in this sin cursed world.? How can we know the direction we should travel if we do not seek the guidance of one who knows?

      “Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning, for in thee I do trust, cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for I lift up my soul unto thee. Deliver me, O Lord from mine enemies, I flee unto thee to hide me, teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God, thy spirit is good. Lead me into the land of uprightness.” Psalm 143: 8-10.

From the book - “Morning Thoughts And Meditations” - by: Robert A. Searles – all rights reserved

This collection of 365 “Morning thoughts and Meditations” is the result of my meeting with the Lord, in a solitary place, in the garden of prayer early in the morning throughout the years.

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