"...For you have not passed this way before." Joshua 3:4b

The new year has arrived and we have not passed this way before. We 
do not know what the days hold for each of us, but we know that God 
knows! In sunny days or shadowed days, that assurance alone gives 
peace to our hearts for we know His divine presence is always with us!

"And behold, I am with you, and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave your until I have done what I have promised you." Genesis 28: 15

"And He said, 'My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.'" Exodus 33: 14

"And the Lord is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. 
He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear, or be dismayed." Deuteronomy 31: 8

"Do not fear for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand." Isaiah 41: 10

Knowing these things let us look forward to each day with the great anticipation of enlarging our knowledge of Christ; of getting to know 
Him more intimately. Let us have the same desire and attitude as that 
of the Apostle Paul as he professed in Philippians 3: 12-14, "...I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 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."

With this desire of our hearts, together let's sing:
"I'm pressing on the upward way,
New heights I'm gaining every day.
Still praying as I'm onward bound,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
Lord lift me up and let me stand
By faith on heaven's table land;
A higher plane than I have found.
Lord plant my feet on higher ground.'"
Amen!