Out with the old, in with the New...Year! 2020!

Please allow me to share a few thoughts (and deep things to consider) as we bid "Goodbye" to 2019 and "Hello There" to 2020.

If you haven't ever, please consider seeking to know God.  Ask Him.

Who is He? Here's one answer I read today from words written thousands of years ago. He is the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him (Zechariah 12:1). Those are some credentials!

So as we think "out with the old, in with the new"--this is Good News or Gospel talk.  What's this Gospel? In Christ, people can have new life!  Through believing in Jesus' death and resurrection on our behalf, we are gifted with eternal life by this LORD of heaven and earth.  As John 17:3 says: And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.   We are gifted with knowing God, and Jesus Christ.

About Jesus, I have chosen Colossians 1:17-18 as my 2020 verses: And [Jesus] is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

I read a great article about this--mind blowing.  Jesus is the beginning and the middle and the end.  "He is the beginning. Present tense.  The gate of time stands open, and He occupies the threshold as humanity pours through on its way to eternity, blessed or condemned. He is the door, but also the deed; the object of all thous prepositions (by, through, in) and, and the same time, the active agent.  He does it.  He is it, yesterday and forever, and always today" ("The Beginning at the End", World Magazine, article by Janie B. Cheaney, p. 20).

Are you in need of clarity on this next year, on life, on eternity?  Are you in need of glue for the soul that holds it from coming unraveled?  Then seek to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ.

Seek Him.  To know Him.

And if you are already seeking Him, seek "that in everything He might be preeminent."

https://world.wng.org/2019/12/the_beginning_at_the_end