In just three short days we will be saying goodbye to 2015 and welcoming 2016.
What are your thoughts as this New Year approaches? As you anticipate this ‘new’ year, what images come to your mind?
Here is what comes to my mind as I reflect on the word “new”- different, firsthand, fresh, original, turning point and innovative. As you approach 2016, think of how you can make this a turning point in your life.
Here are a few thoughts: Let us embrace 2016 with the determination to keep your hope alive. In order for us to take advantage of this opportunity, we will need to let go of some old ways of thinking, old habits, negative ways of speaking and believe it or not some “old” friends and companions.
Let me remind you of a popular scripture verse we often quote: Isaiah 43:19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
Reading this verse brings me to another thing we need to leave behind in 2015 and that is our “old perception.” We need to see things in an entirely different way. We need to understand that God will always make a way for us regardless of how things may sometimes look. We must allow ourselves to truly experience the incredible love that God has for us.
So instead of seeing our bad experiences, and difficult times in 2015 as obstacles, let us see them as merely stepping stones. For 2016 I want you to see God as your source and not your resource; see Him as having the answers to all your questions and not just as a mere onlooker.
In His Service,
Vilma