We are soon to see another year come to an end. How quickly time flies by. James speaks of the brevity of life: “For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little, and then vanisheth away.” (From James 4:14) As an elderly man that has seen many years fly by, I can agree with James that life moves so rapidly that it seems to have been only a little puff of steam out of the kettle and then gone. May we take life very seriously in 2010. We need to make every day and every hour count for the Lord. Paul told us to “Redeem the time because the days are evil.” (Ephesians 5:16) How true!—we are living in very evil days. We believers are here because God has placed us here. We are to be a testimony for the Lord—and thereby we must “Keep ourselves in the love of God” having “compassion that makes a difference” and that will lead us to “save others with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” (From Jude 21-23)
Tomorrow night we have our New Year’s Eve service at Harvest Baptist Church, beginning at 7:00 P.M. We will have some short messages by two of our teenagers. That should be a great blessing to all of us. Then we will see a tremendous film entitled “Fireproof”—a film that will challenge our lives in our homes and in our individual testimonies. And we will cap off the evening with some refreshments . I can’t think of a better way to end the old year and to begin the new one by being in attendance at the House of God where we have opportunity to hear the Word of God. Let’s have a good crowd tomorrow night.
Last Sunday we were blessed with Pastor Musgrave’s sermon in the morning as the preached from 1 Peter 2:1-3. We were challenged to grow spiritually. That should be our challenge for the New Year of 2010.
Continue to pray for Marge Lamoreaux and David Head who continue to face difficult physical problems.
I do encourage you all to be in Sunday School and Church at Harvest Baptist Church next Sunday. Remember, we start a new Adult Homebuilders’ Class as part of our Adult Bible Study at 9:30 A.M. Pastor Musgrave will be teaching this class, and it promises to afford great blessing for all who get involved. Start the New Year right by being in Sunday School and Church on Sunday morning, January 3.
Yours and His,
Pastor Nelson
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