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From the Pastor's
Heart...
Yesterday
Can it
be the end of another year already? Where has the time gone? (I used to get so
tired of hearing people say that and now I’m one of “those people”.) I
think that it is helpful and good to glance back and see where we’ve been. We
can retrace our footsteps this past year and look at our life. We probably see
some sorrow and also some joy. We see some first time experiences and some of
the same ‘ol stuff that we’ve had for years. We see places where we are
disappointed in ourselves, other places that we are amazed at God’s grace to
see us through. I suppose, though, that not one of us can rightly accuse God of
not being faithful, or that He didn’t supply us with what we needed. On the
contrary, we appeal to our faith, believe that God was faithful, and that we
experienced His mercy and His grace.
There
is something, however, about looking forward to heaven-seeing God face to face
and knowing Him as He is-that makes us look back and always be a little
disappointed. You see, we are always longing for more of Him and less failure
and sin in our own life. Our longing for complete perfection will always leave
us feeling a little restless in this life. So I say, let’s glance back but not
spend a whole lot of time dwelling on the past.
For
myself, I want to remember two things:
1) God
was faithful in the yesterdays of my life and He will be faithful in the
tomorrows.
2) God
is good.
If we
lose our grip on these two things (I admit to slipping sometimes), life comes at
us mean and fast. Don’t pass over God’s faithfulness and His goodness too
fast as if you know it all already. In times when we feel overrun by
circumstances, we will revisit the very core of both of these character traits
of our Father. He is faithful and He is good. Let us humbly offer our lives in
service to a God like that.
“When I remember You on my
bed, I meditate on You in the night watches.
Because You have been my help, therefore in
the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.
My soul follows close behind You; Your right
hand upholds me.” Psalm 63:6-8 (NKJ)
By
Pastor Tim Kennell
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