Another year has passed away, gone into eternity with all its sad and glad records. Sad, because of our sins and our failures, all of which have been observed and recorded by the All-seeing eye! Sad, because numbers who "did run well" do so no longer. Glad, because of the "goodness and mercy" which have surely followed us day by day. Glad, because weak ones have been strengthened, sorrowing ones have been comforted, and hungry ones have been fed with the Bread of Life.
How is it with you progression or regression? One thing is certain January finds you one year nearer to Heaven or nearer to Hell! Reader! You have entered this New Year, either accepted in God's Beloved or under God's holy wrath! How unspeakably solemn are the alternatives!
To any unsaved reader who scans these lines, we would say: You have commenced this year on earth and you may end it in Hell, where a ray of hope never enters. To the Christian, not to the professing one, but the genuine believer we would say: What a bright hope is yours! How precious is the thought, that before 1926 ends, you may be "forever with the Lord!" The bud of promise may burst into the full fruit of unspeakable bliss! The springtime of faith and hope may give place to the unending summertime of blessedness and eternal glory.
Since this is the case, let us be reminded of our solemn responsibility at the dawn of another year to yield ourselves afresh to God, to seek His face with full purpose of heart, to supplicate Him for new supplies of grace that we may serve Him as never before!
[A. W. Pink]
Job 22:21 ... Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
Romans 13:11-12 ... And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Psalm 90:12 ... So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.❤
