NEW YEAR'S DAY 2013
Today is Jan 1, 2013 at 6.00 AM in Saint John NB, and the thermometer is reading -17C, and we have received 2 major snow storms since Christmas with at least 24 inches of snow on the ground, more than at anytime last year. We celebrated last night with a family gathering at Jerry and Carol's home with everyone there except David and Rhonda who were with Ben and Jo in Joliet Quebec celebrating with Jo's French Canadian family, and Shiloh was in Saint Louise MO with 20,500-30,000 students at the Urbana ISCF missions gathering. So I expect the sun to put in an appearance at about 8.30 AM and we will have a cool crisp New Year's Day.
The day of thinking we had to stay awake to welcome the new year in have long gone, and we are content to let the younger crowd do that for us, knowing that at the right time it will happen all around the world. We recorded in our article "A Review of 2012" how God had given us a particular scripture verse for 2012, but so far that hasn't happened for 2013. But we will keep listening, and perhaps He will yet do that. We still have 365 days in this New Year to sense His still small voice advising us of just what we should do.--- Since starting this article I took a break for breakfast and read "Our Daily Bread" for today and got my answer already for a motto for 2013. It will be "Draw near to God", and I explain more about it in my first article in 2013 called "The Good Life". It certainly does not take God long to answer, and this wasn't really a prayer; and these little books of daily devotionals are prepared a year in advance, so this is just a further example of the "foreknowledge" of our God. Why would we not want to draw near to Him? It would appear as though most people might have some little "secret sins" that they don't want others to know about, and they assume that God does not know about them either. Which is ridicules because He sees everything that we all do, so it is impossible to hide things from Him. He even knows what we keep in what Baxter Kruger calls the "garbage can" with a lid on it, that he claims we all have that we stuff all the hurts and emotional wounds we have ever received into, and we keep the lid on tight. I never heard it identified as that but I do know from experience when dealing with certain people in the past, that when they allow the Holy Spirit to really bring to the surface things they have kept secret, they can be healed instantly of things that have kept them in bondage for years. They have probably taken the lid off their "garbage can"!!
Sincerely submitted.
Dave Jamer 01/01/13
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