Beautifully Kept

  Our first month of 2017 is drawing to a close. A brand new year is ahead of us. Are your New Year’s resolutions still holding strong or are they beginning to wane a bit? Or maybe you are like me and you don’t even bother making resolutions because you already know you’ll never stick to them anyway.

  Does a new year hold promise for you or does it bring hesitation of the unknown? I try to look at a new year with hope instead of hesitation, but we just never know what a new year will bring with it. I think we can at least expect a mixed bag of blessings and hardships. Hopefully the blessings will outweigh the hardships but even if they don’t, God will see us through. No matter what a day, a week, a month, or a year brings, God is in it.

  God is there when the doctor helps to deliver your new baby and God is there when the doctor delivers the news that you or a loved one has cancer. God is there when you land that perfect job and God is there when you lose your job that supports your family. God is there when you say, “I do” to the love of your life and God is there when the love has grown cold and walked out the door.

  God smiles in our joys and holds us in our sorrows. I have said this before: God is our One True Constant. We were made by Him and for Him and yet we are the ones who receive the wealth of His love. We can do nothing to earn this kind of love. This kind of love is absolute. God freely gives it. It is ours for the taking and it is by far the greatest thing you will ever have on earth. It far exceeds your best day ever and it far outweighs your darkest night.

  So if you have placed your life in God’s hands then no matter what today, tomorrow, or this next year brings, you are and will be beautifully kept by God.

Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 Peter 1:3-5 (Emphasis added)

Dina Pugh