Looking Back, Looking Forward
It is good to give thanks to the LORD And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning And Your faithfulness by night, (Psalms 92:1-2 NASB) Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14 NASB) As I enter 2011, am am heartened by God's immense patience with me and faithfulness to Himself in 2011. I see the balance of anticipating His lovingkindness in the future and proclaiming His faithfulness in the past. In all of this, I anticipate a stronger and sharper focus on the light of Christ as He shines in, through, and among the communities of which I am a part. I was encouraged by the above 'Wordle', which is a graphical representation of the words that have appeared most frequently in this ...