While I reflect on this past year I do so with great emotion. Losing a loved one is one of the hardest things one can go through. With the loss of my Mother and Father comes a deep realization that we have a finite time here on this earth. What we do with the time God gave us will determine where we spend eternity.
I'm confident that neither death nor life will separate us from the love of God. We can rejoice that we have a savior that loves us beyond measure and will never forsake us when we turn to Him in our need. God is able to do a mighty work in us and turn our heart of stone into a heart of flesh, "Who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us"
"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws." Ezekiel 36:25-27
God has given us a free will to choose to accept his unconditional love or not. As the rich young ruler had a choice and was asked by Jesus to come follow Him and "you will have treasure in heaven" but couldn't do it because of the love for this world and the things in it. We too are faced with these decisions whether to turn from our sin and this world to a life in Godliness, where we make a conscious decision to live for Him and obey all his commandments. With the help of the Holy Spirit we to can live a life that is wholly pleasing to Him.
"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
It is my heartfelt prayer that everybody this year can find true peace and joy that is in Christ Jesus. God bless you all.
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