Counting down the final days of 2015. How quickly the year went by and in a few days we will be writing 2016 or /16 on all our checks, documents and other places where a date is required. A lot of "worldly" events will take place in the coming year: Super Bowl 50, the Rio Summer Olympics, a Presidential Election and all the events leading up to it, microchipping of all dogs in England, a bunch of space probes and first-time space events. We can anticipate a growing number of strange-named drugs with horrendous side effects, wilder weather and a host of theories on why it is occurring, and occurring more frequently. In all that will happen, we are certain that we have no certainty, and will constantly be "surprised" by what we as humans come up with and what the "world" is capable of.
But of more importance is the reality that we are all getting older, getting closer to the inevitability of our demise and what will take place to us thereafter. For believers in Jesus Christ, the future, while not fully known to us, will outstep life as we know it now, and our present peace and joy will pale by comparison to the peace and joy we will experience then. We don't know if 2016 is the time for this all to take place, but we should look ahead with anticipation and expectancy to God's "ultimate relief" and live each day until then with gratitude and thanksgiving for all He has done for us and the hope He instills in us.
I pray for the coming year, all God has in store for us, and for His peace to prevail in our lives and the lives of all we come in contact with. May Your Kingdom come and Your will be done, now and forever. Thank You, Lord, and Amen.
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