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No you don’t have to adjust your eyes, there is really nothing in the first part of my article this month. That’s exactly where you and I find ourselves at the outset of this brand new year. If we will allow the Holy Spirit to work in our hearts and minds He will chart a new course of action for us, and the possibilities are truly limitless. I want you to know that I have been praying for you individually and for our church that we would set Travelers Rest on fire this coming year with a renewed attitude and passion for serving our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as we have never done before! See, HE is doing a new thing among us! Are you going to be a part of it, starting right now? You decide if you are going to surrender YOU to Him. It is just that simple, we try to make it harder and more complicated than it really is!
Would that we would have the attitude of the Apostle Paul this new year as he writes in Philippians 3:7-4:1, “Whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him…I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings. Not that I have already obtained all this,…Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. Therefore, my brothers, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you should stand firm in the Lord, dear friends!” NIV
What will God do with us this new year? I can’t wait to be a part of finding out!
I love you and I am praying for you, Pastor Scott
