Michael Harrison's e-devotion

  This will be the only e-devotion for this week and the last week of 2021.  I am writing with the intent on looking back and learning from this year as well as looking forward with joy and determination to a new year full of possibilities. Three words come to mind in this reflection and time of planning.  I pray they will give you some what of a guide. REMEMBER. REPENT. REDEEM. Remember what is in the past, but leave things in the past.  They are to be points of learning and event some what of a trampoline to help you move to the next place. I am excited about the future, yet it really is the things of the past year, and further back, that have set the stage for what is ahead.  God called me to Himself first.  I long for a deeper relationship with Him.  God gave me a passion to serve Him and others.  Throughout my life there have been spiritual markers, as Henry Blackaby called them, that line my life and even set me up for more.  I long for...

  Turn our attention to this day and what is ahead.  Christmas was sweet.  The new year begins in only a few days, and we recognize this year has been full challenges.  Many of us are tired because of all we have been through.  Would you agree? What we will do to change our minds and direction for the next year, or even the next days?  I believe that is what God gave us His love letter, the word of God for.  It impacts us so that we can impact the world. God gave the church and His word for the church so we can take His word to the world, and I believe that word is hope and life and strength.  yet all around us is death and dying, pain and problems, struggle and sever weakness.  I am tired of that.  I am ready for an adjustment. That is why I suggest there are two things that will change us and prepare us to think stronger.  These will allow us to help others find real hope.  First, we have to have hope.  Two things will f...