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"Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Saviour and of Christ Jesus our hope." 1 Timothy 1:1
As start another year, we have little idea of what it might hold. We tend to wish each other a happy new year and hope for favourable circumstances. However, we really don’t know whether natural disasters will affect us, whether political turmoil will disrupt our lives, or perhaps good fortune will rearrange our plans for the future.
In marriage we vowed to be together, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, because we don't know what life has for us. We marry with ideas of what our future will look like, but it may turn out very differently to our expectations. We don’t know what challenges we may face, what sorrows and joys will be ours, but we commit to being together, and hope for favourable circumstances.
As Christians though our hope is not in favourable circumstances, but rather our hope is in Christ.
If we hope for better circumstances our hope is the fragility of this world, and we can become disillusioned when things don't work out the way we planned. But when we hope in Christ, our circumstances don't have to determine whether a year is good or not. Recently I had an email from a friend who, from the world's point of view had a bad year with ill health, but she felt it was a good year because she had grown in her spiritual understanding of God and his purposes.
As we start another year let's fix our eyes on Jesus, our hope in all circumstances.
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