Happy New Year Y'all!
Wow. 2018 was a year full of inspiration. There were many beautiful events, inspirational individuals, and wonderful stories that we had the opportunity to share with you all! We wanted to let you know how honored we all are to have played even a small part in your life this past year!
Today's guest post from Heath Ferguson is sure to set you in the right direction going into 2019. We hope you and your loved ones have a spectacular and safe New Year's Eve celebration!
Cheers y'all!
Wow. 2018 was a year full of inspiration. There were many beautiful events, inspirational individuals, and wonderful stories that we had the opportunity to share with you all! We wanted to let you know how honored we all are to have played even a small part in your life this past year!
Today's guest post from Heath Ferguson is sure to set you in the right direction going into 2019. We hope you and your loved ones have a spectacular and safe New Year's Eve celebration!
Cheers y'all!
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Romans 12:12
How do we approach 2019? I think it would be safe to say that we are hopeful. Some of us look back on 2018 and hope that we can have another good year just like it. Some of us have had awful years that we really don’t want to repeat. No matter what 2018 has been like for us, we all look toward the coming year with hope.
For us as Christians, we have fixed our hope in and through Christ. Prayerfully, we give over our futures in His love, His grace, and His mercy. This is not easy. In our human frailty, we hesitate and hold back our trust as fear and anxiety force themselves into our consciousness.
The question is, as we begin the New Year, how do we resolve the struggle of our free wills as we search to connect to His divine will? The answer to the question is hope. Hope is the bridge across all of the mysteries concerning our connection to our Creator. We find ourselves in Him as we hope for Him. We believe in His promises when, by hope, we faithfully trust that He loves us. Hope for our future is bound up in our worship of, praise of, and prayer to Him.
May we begin the New Year fixed on God, the Father. May we trust in His love, Christ Jesus. And may we discover that our place with Him is the deliverance our heart cries out for.
2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:2-5
- Heath Ferguson-
How do we approach 2019? I think it would be safe to say that we are hopeful. Some of us look back on 2018 and hope that we can have another good year just like it. Some of us have had awful years that we really don’t want to repeat. No matter what 2018 has been like for us, we all look toward the coming year with hope.
For us as Christians, we have fixed our hope in and through Christ. Prayerfully, we give over our futures in His love, His grace, and His mercy. This is not easy. In our human frailty, we hesitate and hold back our trust as fear and anxiety force themselves into our consciousness.
The question is, as we begin the New Year, how do we resolve the struggle of our free wills as we search to connect to His divine will? The answer to the question is hope. Hope is the bridge across all of the mysteries concerning our connection to our Creator. We find ourselves in Him as we hope for Him. We believe in His promises when, by hope, we faithfully trust that He loves us. Hope for our future is bound up in our worship of, praise of, and prayer to Him.
May we begin the New Year fixed on God, the Father. May we trust in His love, Christ Jesus. And may we discover that our place with Him is the deliverance our heart cries out for.
2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Romans 5:2-5
- Heath Ferguson-
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