New Mercies for the New Year

First of all, Happy New Year!!

Secondly, sorry for being missing for so long.

Wow.. Time seems to have just flew by in a flash. Everything feels like it just happened yesterday. To think that this is the start of a whole new year. Questions on "How's this year going to be?" "What's going to happen this year?" "Will it be just as bad or will it be better?" would have occur in everyone's mind. The year ahead seems to be unknown and such a blur. To some, they have probably started planning how much to save, what to do, make new year resolutions and set goals for their year ahead. But who really knows what's going to happen. Before you know it, a month passes by, two months, half the year, then it'll be the end again.

The start of the year is the perfect time to reflect on the past. Its a time where we recall the lessons learned, reminisce the beautiful moments and collect the memories made. It is a time to realise that so much has passed, so much has happened and all of it had happened for every good reason God has decided. He has probably done so much for us in the past year and we will never even begin to know. He has probably thought us so much in the past year that we can't even remember every single lesson learned.

And these are the lessons that will continue to be taught to us until we truly learn and know it in our hearts. How many of us really look forward to wake up each day and see what God has to teach today? How many of us take note of what God is doing around us to help us grow? How many of us truly embrace the joy of the Lord every moment of the day to notice that His glory is manifested in the things that will only happen by His miracle? The answer is not many of us do. We tend to neglect God in our everyday lives. We tend to complain about the things that don't go well and things that are not in favour of us.

We fail to realise that everyday is a new day, and everyday His mercies are new. So in this new year, lets do something different for a change. How about doing something back for our Lord in magnifying Him and bringing Him glory through the way we live our lives. How about not complaining about our day and figure out why things happen the way they do. Maybe we could take the extra effort to notice God in our daily routine.

And just maybe, this year it wouldn't be so routine. Maybe by the end of this year, we can say we've come a distance with God. Only to strive to go further with God next year and the year after. The journey with God never ends.

To realise that till today, God is still with us, means everything. To know that till today, His mercies are new everyday, is priceless.

Awaiting gratefully for His new mercies for the New Year,
Me