Happy New Year!

Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom . Psalms 90:12.

Another year of life has come and gone. Life experiences both high and low, has filled the once empty canvas of another year gone by.  A New Dawn is approaching before us. What will be its written record? What will be written upon its blank pages? The manner in which we spend each passing day, will decide the answer to this question. . . .

Let us enter into the New Year with our hearts cleansed from the defilement of selfishness and pride. Let us put away every sinful thought, and seek to become more faithful, and diligent learners with open hearts to the object lessons, in the school of Jesus Christ.

A New Year opens its canvas before us. What shall be painted upon them? ...

Let us seek to begin this year with right purposes and pure motives, as a people who are faithfully accountable and obedient to God.

Remember and bear in mind that your actions are passing daily before Him.  Written and recorded into history by the pen of God's recording angels.  Every hurtful or helpful word, every good or bad deeds, every clean or filthy thoughts, are recorded and set before the judgement day.

For we shall all stand before the Lord"... the Judgment shall be set and the books shall be opened"  Daniel 7:10

But if we connect with God, with daily devotionals to His abundant source of peace, light, and truths.  His Holy Spirit will flow through you as a channel to refresh and bless you, and all those around you.

No matter how filthy and dirty you sins may have been in the past.  No matter how low of the lowest, you had succumbed to temptations.  Confess before the Lord, and He shall cleansed you, as white as snow.  And His loving promise is  "And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." Hebrews 10:17

This could be the last year of life for some of us.  We don't know, for only God sees the beginning from the end.  Should we not enter upon this New Year with thoughtful consideration?  Should not sincerity, respect, humbleness, kindness lead our daily thoughts toward others, as did Jesus as an example?

For He calls you to be a blessing to others..."Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee...For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee."  Isaiah 60:1,2

Let us now withhold nothing from Him who gave His precious life for us. . . . Let us all consecrate to Him, the property, stewardship, and gifts He has entrusted to us.

But above all else, let us renew our lives and give ourselves to Him this New Year, as a freewill offering.  "Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." 2Corinthians 5:17

May the beginning of this New Year be a time that shall forever be remembered--as a time when Jesus shall come in among you and yours, " To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace." Luke 1:79.  "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men"  Luke 2:14  Wishing you all, a prosperous and blessed New Year.

Ia manuia,

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