Happy New Years!

Happy 2013 everybody! I don’t know about you all, but 2012 was a crazy awesome year! So many gifts, challenges, blessings…the list goes on and on. Grateful for what’s behind, and anxious about what’s ahead. Kind of nervous about 2013, since it's my graduation year and is sort of the start of this whole "growing up" thing. The decisions I make in the next few years are life-changers, which is both terrifying and thrilling. As daunting as this year seems to be, I know it also has potential to be one of the sweetest. At a Sunday morning service, a wise man preached, “Keep Moving.” It’s a simple but wise statement on how to approach the New Year.

A dear friend gave me Charles Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening Daily Readings” as a Christmas present, and I’d like to share Spurgeon’s wise words regarding the first day of the New Year.

Morning, January 1

“They did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.” Joshua 5:12

Israel’s weary wanderings were all over, and the promised rest was attained. No more moving tents, fiery serpents, fierce Amalekites, and howling wilderness: they came to the land which flowed with milk and honey, and they ate the old corn of the land. Perhaps this year, beloved Christian reader, this may be thy case or mine. Joyful is the prospect, and if faith be in active exercise, it will yield unalloyed delight. To be with Jesus in the rest which remaineth for the people of God, is cheering hope indeed, and to expect this glory so soon is a double bliss. Unbelief shudders at the Jordan which still rolls between us and the goodly land, but let us rest assured that we have already experienced more ills than death at its worst can cause us. Let us banish every fearful thought, and rejoice with exceeding great joy, in the prospect that this year we shall begin to be “forever with the Lord.”

God bless and Happy New Years!