Gen 1:14-19, Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. And God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. 
As we are gathered today to dedicate this New Year to The Lord, it is important to realize that every year was and is created by God. He is the One Who chose to begin the whole process of what we call time. In the creative perfection of His working power, He put the rotation of the day, the week, the months, and the years into place. The Lord God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth established the reality that our days were ordered according to His great plan to bring us into a relationship in which we acknowledge that what He created is good.
Many of us find ourselves bemoaning the passing of each year. We think of what we did not accomplish! We dread how everything seems to be speeding up and we are losing our abilities, both physically and mentally, to deal with the accelerated pace of life. With the growing depth of the technological social order of which we are a part, the human mind is overwhelmed with less and less capacity to keep up with it all. There are so many current devices and schemes of human intellect, aided by mechanical processing power, which are in development, that many of us are on the brink of giving up to the course of what man is putting forth as the best for us.
However, we need to stop and consider what is really taking place as this next year unfolds with all its advancements and changes. No matter what man can conjure up, there is a limit set as to how far and how deep and how invasive those plots can go. No matter what the scale of human endeavor, The Lord is the One Who controls the entire province of human destiny.
It is as simple as looking at the very basic process of true creation. God created the day, the week, the month, and the year in accordance with the passing of time. Man has never been able to add one minute to the day. Man cannot add one moment to any week, or one day to any year. Yes, there are the manipulative manners of human intellect to adjust calendars, etc, but those are simply that, human calculations. The fact is that the interaction of the sun, the moon, and the earth is not bound by any course of human enterprise. 
The entire universe follows the exact process and pattern that God set into place. The earth revolves around the sun in the exact route that is the design of The Lord. Each day is exactly as God always deemed necessary. Nothing is ever able to change that which is the Sovereign manner of the provision of Our Loving and Glorious Heavenly Father, Only Begotten Son, and Omnipresent Holy Spirit. What each moment brings is always in line with what God has established from before even the advent of His creation of time for us.
Consider what we are taught by God through the Preacher in Eccl 3:14. This is the reason that God has established what we call time and which we mark with our calendars.
Eccl 3:14, I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him. 
No one can add to what God has done, and no one can take away from it. Each day, each week, each month, each year, including this New Year which we dedicate to Him in our hearts and in our minds and in our actions, reveals the course in which we learn to honor and to reverence and to cherish Him all the more. 
We do not gather here today to claim that this next year is only going to be filled with flowers and music and human joy. That would be a terrible lie that would haunt our every thought. We know that there will be hard times, painful times, times of human disappointment and tragedy. There will be birth and death, success and failure, joy and sorrow, sickness and healing. 
What we do proclaim, however, with every fiber of our being, is that God is the One Who shows Himself glorious through it all! He will use this year to work, in His people, that trust and that faith and that living reliance upon Him to see us through it all in the Victory of Jesus, both Our Savior and Our Lord.
Consider what Christ, Himself tells us about the course of time as it fulfills the work that God designed for it. Please turn to the Book of Matthew, Chapter 6.
Matt 6, verses 25-27, "For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, as to what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor for your body, as to what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing? "Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? "And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life's span? 
Notice that Jesus tells us not to worry about the things that humanity is constantly consumed with. There is that human propensity to be in anxiety over how we will make a living on this earth in order to meet our basic needs. 
We need sustenance and we need shelter and we need love. These beget the worries that so much cloud our minds and consume our hearts. We do any manner of things to try to meet those needs, or lacking that, to deaden the worries and the fears that consume our thoughts and dictate our actions. 
Yet God meets the every need, moment by moment and day by day. He works to cause us to look to Him and to count on Him and to come to the realization that our very source of meeting the need of love is found in Him. 
Jesus continues with the great proclamation for every year, as we face each anew in Him. This is with the joyous truth of Matt 6:31-34.
Matt 6:31-34, "Do not be anxious then, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'With what shall we clothe ourselves?' "For all these things the Gentiles eagerly seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you. "Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
This is the statement of what should be our dedication of this New Year, and every month, week, day, and moment of God’s creation of time for us. We learn, through the passage of time, ever more fully how Omnipotent, how Omnipresent, and how Omniscient is the Lord God Almighty, the Creator of Heaven and earth and time as we know it. It is all in order to come to know just how much God loves us. This is through the manner in which He meets our every need, as each moment passes in the course of His great plan to love us unto Himself through the gift of His Only Begotten Son. 
As we are told by Jesus, Himself, in John 3:16, as He explains that the end of time will bring forth the glory of our eternal life in Him.  John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. Amen.