My servant Moses is dead; therefore prepare now (Joshua 1: 2)
During the New Year's Eve Mass service in the church, we prayed together: “Father, we entrust to You this past year. We leave our failures, regrets, and disappointments to You, because they are no longer useful to us. Now, make us new human beings, forgetting what is behind and focusing on what is in front of us.
“We leave to You all our hopes and dreams for the future. Purify it all with Your Spirit so that our will truly reflects Your will for us.
“As we stand on the threshold of a new year, encourage us with past successes, challenge us with the power of Your word, and guide us by the presence of Your Holy Spirit.”
Looking in two directions at each time of transition is a good thing. When Joshua led Israel, God told him to consider the past and the future: “Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I will give unto them, even unto the children of Israel ”(Joshua 1: 2). Then He promised, "As I was with Moses, so will I be with thee." Do not be discouraged and discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go ”(verse 5,9).
By trusting in God, we can look back and look ahead, and boldly step into the new year — David McCasland
THE VICTURES OF THE PAST GIVE COURAGE TO FACE THE FUTURE
*) take from Daily Meditation