Message : look back at the end of year 2022 by Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce

 Message: look back at the end of year 2022                                      Date: Dec. 30,2022

by Rev. Katherine Liu Bruce  

 Christian Arts Ministries : Biblical precepts & Gospel music; Pastoral ministry & counseling   

Theme: Leave the irreparable past in God’s hands; step out into the irresistible future with God.

At the end of year 2022, I look back from Oct. 2021 to Oct. 2022, I had accomplished the Bible in one year reading, studying, and sharing. Each morning, I humbly bowed down to pray for new vision, guidance, interpretation of the Bible, it took God’s divine power to strengthen me to complete this task, and shared with my husband as morning devotion, then, posted on my Biblical precepts blog. Thank God for His divine strength. God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future.

During 2022, as Floridians, we faced an economic inflation crisis, the prices of groceries, gas, property insurance and rental cost rose up to the highest level, baby products shortage, and hurricane landfall resulted in many properties damaged. Many things appeared to be unusual, unscriptural, unlawfulness such as same sex marriage protection had signed into bill by the president Biden.     

As Christians, saints, believers and ministers, at each stage of our life, we need to make sure that God is with us, and the God of Israel will go before us.  We shall not go out with haste. As we go forth into the coming year 2023, let us not be in the haste of impetuous, nor with the flight of impulsive thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

            Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the irreparable past in His hands, and step out into the irresistible future with God. For the Lord will go before you, This is a gracious revelation that God will defend and guard where we have failed to. When we stand firm, be still, believe, trust, and be patient, wait upon the Lord, the God of Israel will be our rearward.

Bibliography,

      Chambers, Oswald. “My utmost for His highest”. NY: DODD, MEAD & Company, Inc.1935.