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!!! “THE GOD OF THE NEW”
This is a new year.
We have never passed this way before.
It is a time of expectation.
A time when we may look back and see the hand of God’s provision but we must look forward and see the Vision of what God wants to accomplish.
People, who always look back, remembering when, will never possess the promises of God. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not yet seen.”
Faith looks forward never back.
Our faith may be enriched by what we have seen God do in the past.
But the faith that pleases God is the faith that believes He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
I believe in the God Who makes all things new.
2008 was a year of great change.
A year of the beginning of the greatest recession since the “Great Depression.”
Though it was a year of great difficulty for many it was also a year of great successes.
There may have been many failures - broken relationships; financial setbacks; health and physical problems; even some who experienced spiritual bankruptcy.
Others although found new jobs, received healing from God, had relationships restored.
The sun shone and the rain fell yet in it all God is still in control!
The one thing that is certain whether we experienced success or failure both were in 2008 and both are in the past and neither can be changed.
They are gone – so today it is not a time to look back to the good, the bad or the ugly.
It is a time to look ahead.
Where is God taking us and where will we be this time next year?
Paul writing to the church at Philippi said,
*Philippians 3:13 (NKJV) *
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing /I do,/ forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
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*Paul’s hope for the future was letting go of the past.*
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One thing I do – forget what is behind.
Forget the success –
*Philippians 3:7 (NKJV) *
But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.
Forget the failures –
*Philippians 3:6, 8 (NKJV) *
concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
… 8Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
The sign of maturity (perfection) is this – keep forgetting yesterday – live today and press of for perfection tomorrow.
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#. *The sign of maturity is getting over the past; living today to change tomorrow.*
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