Praise God! You have made it over into 2021! Do you remember how you felt as you approached 2020 last year? I remember the excitement that I felt and knew without a shadow of a doubt that 2020 would be a select year. The association for me was 2020 perfect vision! Well, did I have a rude awakening in a short period! When March arrived, so did news of a pandemic centered around COVID-19. However, let me tell you, as David said in Psalms 27, I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. My faith was my sustaining power in 2020. Now we are moving on to 2021, so what should that look like for us?
Additionally, when I think of 2021, I remember the words of another tremendous biblical figure. Paul reminds us to forget those things which are behind us. Is forgetting easy? No way! Yet, it is expedient for us not to focus on some things that caused grief, heartache, and pain in our lives. Therefore, if we look in the rearview mirror, always without looking forward while driving, it will undoubtedly cause a terrible collision. Assuredly, your eyes and mind must go in a forward direction if you are to reach your destination whole.
Likewise, it is with life. Last year some of us wished and hoped and prayed for new relationships and husbands and children and significant others, and none of those dreams came to fruition. However, last year is gone. The year’s disappointments should be in the category of past hurts and pains. Please leave them in 2020 with the other disastrous calamities. To that end, press forward into 2021 with a renewed passion for life and expected joy and “real peace.” We determine, along with God’s guidance, our altitude in life. If you want to fly high, your head can’t stay near the ground. Your thoughts have to ascend to things you desire in the will of God. My sisters, don’t give up on your heart’s desires. Undoubtedly, start anew!
To conclude, I believe 2021 will be better. Trusting God has to be the number one strategy in my life. Is it yours? Will you step out on the promises of God as we move further along into 2021? Let’s have an expectation of an expected end that will be for our good. God loves us and will keep and protect us through whatever situations we face, and without fear, I will approach this new year with the certainty of God’s promises made to me. Has God promised you anything that has not happened yet? If so, look for it in 2021 as we move forward.
Most importantly, may the blessings and grace of God cover your life this new year. Happy New Year and a blessed 2021. Keep marching and pressing on! Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3: 13-14. I’ll be back next week with a new post, “Situation or Revelation?”
Be encouraged, and God bless!
Sister Jackie
Yes, 2021 is off to a start. If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering if this year will resemble 2020 in any way. I’m not sure what this year will bring, but I’m looking forward to great things. Higher heights in God;
Getting out of the house more; looking and finding my perfect abode etc.
I’m anticipating great and marvelous times.
Amen, my Sister! I also am looking for great things this year. First spiritually and then naturally so. The God we serve can give us brighter days in 2021! My Pastor’s theme for us this year is: God is going to do remolding, healing, and unusual blessings in 2021! I am holding on to that and my belief in God’s promises! Thank you so much for sharing, and God bless you with your heart’s desires in 2021!
Amen,…Yes, by faith we must press on and move on, for we must do so to survive and thrive. But even in 2020, in the midst of great tragedy and suffering, our God did not stop blessing. Yet, in 2020, there were many losses, sufferings and heartbreaks, but, that is not new, just the magnitude is new to “us” in this season of our life. Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
I started 2020 purposed in my heart and mind to look for the “good”, and had no idea that to stay up-lifted I truly needed to look for the “good” not only in our God, but also in others and in myself too. And I’m So glad that I saw “good”, for day by day it lightened my heart and encouraged me. HALLELUJAH! You quoted two of the scriptures that I had to hold on tightly to in 2020, and I’m sure some others felt the same — “Philippians 3:13-14, and, Psalms 27:13”.
None of us knew exactly what “2020” would bring, but we can still have hope in our faithful God, and keep one another lifted up in prayer, day by day, in this new year of “2021”, as we humbly Thank our God for allowing us to see the dawning of this new year.
So, like you Sis, and so many others, I am yet keeping my faith built up on the Never failing Promises and Power of our Almighty God. For Through it all, whether we understand or not, we know that God always prevails and always keeps ALL of His promises. So in 2021, I am yet looking for the “Good”, in our God, and also in others, and myself too. — For Everything that God made or does is Good.
Thank you for all you have shared with us in this blog post, it has been “good”! May The Blessing of our God continually overtake you!
“So in 2021, I am yet looking for the “Good,” in our God, and also in others, and myself too. — For Everything that God made or does is Good.” To that statement, I say AMEN, my sister! Thank you so much for sharing this message that God is good and everything He does is good, so why should we worry or fret over today or tomorrow? God bless you, and may the everlasting joy of His love keep and bless you in 2021.