New Year with New wonders

It is yet another beautiful Year which God has created. With new targets and dreams, we pursue the year with hopes of success and many opportunities. The year of 2011 is one of a focus in getting to College. It is also a reminder to put all trust in God, because only in help will my help come from.
When one thinks of the blessings of God, it is easier to concentrate on profound memories of what we have accomplished over the past years and of all the success we have accumulated. How often do we thank God for allowing as to be tested and trialed in various levels. In the book of James we are encouraged to consider it all pure joy when we face various kinds of trails (James 1:2)... It is evident to acknowledge joy when everything is going well... but how can we consider ourselves blessed to go through fire of test. Well it is written that "Blessed is the man who endure through temptations..." 2 Tim 2:10 quotes;
"Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory."

This is the year of success, This is the year of new begins, when the old becomes new. The fighting becomes loving, the hungry become fed, the hurt become healed and the hopeless become hope filled. The is a year of new beginnings our faith and trust in the Lord will help us to believe and depend of God to open new doors of opportunities in our lives. It is written, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything with prayer and partition, with thanksgiving present your requests to God,"Philippians 4:6.Here is the part where we are instruct or encouraged, however way you want to look at it, to be thankful in all situations and to go to God thanking him for what we are going through and recognizing that He is beside us all the way through. God knows we are people of panic, we are people of little faith and sometimes fall short of our faith in him. He instructs us not to panic or be anxious but rather remember that He never left our side and will never leave our side. Try to picture this; If God is everywhere, and in everything, and how things can not survive without him... how can He be away from us?! It's almost like someone saying to his friend, "you have blood in your body, I don't." The example is to show that we can not survive without blood in our system, as it is essential for survival in our physical self; as Christ is essential to all creation. He is not there... there is no existence of creation. If we have no blood we are no longer living.

May we be encouraged and recognize that although we have heard that Christ came to world and die for us the question I may ask is, who is the world? The 'world' is YOU! He specifically came and died for you so that you might be saved from the destruction. He came without a guarantee that you would accept Him, but He did anyway so that you would have the opportunity to come to him and accept His tremendous love for you.

I pray that your year be filled of exciting positive results and that even when we go through trials and tribulations that we are reminded that Christ is the blood of our system, and that He is always with us.

Be Blessed
N.O.C