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Happy New Year
Some think such wishes are frivolous and should not be spoken. Their overmuch piety makes them sourpusses. Surely, if it is right for us to desire one another's good, (And it is!), it cannot be wrong to express it in a few words of friendly greeting. It is proper for us to reflect upon our sins and failures, our wanderings and departings from our God during the year that is gone. But having done so, let us bury the past. As the stroke of the clock at midnight last night buries the previous day forever, so let us bury the past. Forgetting those things which are behind, let us each reach out and press forward to those things that are set before us in Christ. Give thanks to God for mercies experienced and received; but do not live upon those either. Yesterday's bread will not sustain our souls today. Let us awake every day given us in the New Year with an intense desire to see, experience, and rejoice in the great mercies of our great God, which are new every morning.
Don Fortner
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