WORD TODAY: A New Year

 

A New Year The land that you are crossing to possess is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks in the rain from heaven. It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.— Deuteronomy 11:11-12 Today dear friends, we stand upon the verge of the unknown. There lies before us the new year and we are going forward to possess it. Who can tell what we shall find? What new experiences, what changes shall come, what new needs shall arise? But here is the cheering, comforting, gladdening message from our Heavenly Father, “The Lord thy God cares for it.” And, “His eyes are upon it away to the end of the year.” All our supply is to come from the Lord. Here are springs that shall never dry; here are fountains and streams that shall never be cut off. Here, anxious one, is the gracious pledge of the Heavenly Father. If He is the Source of our mercies, they can never fail us. The Father comes near to take our hand and lead us on our way today. It shall be a good, a blessed new year! Trust Him. He leads us on by paths we did not know; Upward He leads us, though our steps be slow, Though oft we faint and falter on the way, Though storms and darkness oft obscure the day; Yet when the clouds are gone, We know He leads us on. He leads us on through all the unquiet years; Past all our dreamland hopes, and doubts and fears, He guides our steps, through all the tangled maze Of losses, sorrows, and o’erclouded days; We know His will is done; And still He leads us on. —N.L. Zinzendorf