Good and Beautiful
Today is the last day of the year. A new year, and even a new decade wait for us.
Even though I believe that change is possible at any moment, and that God’s mercy towards us is new every morning, I love the symbolism of a new year. The sense that a line is being drawn between what has been, and what can be. The hope of a new beginning.
Hope seems to be something I’m thinking of a lot at the moment. I mentioned it in my last post, and it’s something I’m taking with me into this new year. It’s the kind of hope that holds onto God no matter what, with the quiet and total conviction, that He is really, really good.
It’s the kind of hope that looks at a valley of dry bones and speaks forth life, and sees the breath of God released (Ezekiel 37).
I came across this beautiful version of Romans 8:28.
“We are confident that God is able to orchestrate everything to create something good and beautiful when we love Him and accept His invitation to live according to His plan” Romans 8:28 (The Voice).
As I sit with my husband tonight, and share a quiet meal, these words are going to be my vision for the new year. In everything, in every experience, in every mistake, in everything, God can create goodness and beauty. Continue in surrender to Him, and love for Him, knowing that our hope in Him will be realised in ways more beautiful, more good, than we ever could have imagined.
A very blessed and happy 2010 to you, full of God’s presence and love
I am going to write that verse down in my journal! Hope is a much more powerful thing that I used to think it was. Joy comes out of hope, and that is where so much of our strength comes from. May God reveal Himself to you in new and beautiful ways in the New Year. ♥
Happy new year Birgit! I can joyfully face this year knowing we serve a God who always has our best in mind. :)
Happy New Year, Tawny! :) It’s a lovely version of that verse isn’t it? And I love what you’ve said here about hope being a source of our strength, I really relate to this. May God draw you close, and continue to pour out His Spirit upon you in the year ahead xo
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Happy New Year, Rain! It is so comforting to know that God is for us, and as you say, always has our best at heart. There is such peace and hope in that. Love you my friend, and God’s richest blessings to you this new year xo