As we are brought once more to the beginning of a new year, it is well for us to consider how we have spent the past one, and although we cannot undo what is past, yet as we view it, it may cause us to seek to be more before the Lord, and be cast upon Him, that we may be kept for His glory, in having our time spent for Him.
How solemn, then, is our path down here in view of these scriptures. I trust each one of us may be given to go on in our journey through this life, with a deeper sense in our souls of these solemn facts:
First, that we cannot hide anything from Him.
Second, that we must give account to Him.
Third, that we shall receive for the things done in the body, whether they be good or bad.
On the other hand, how happy we are when we are walking as under His eye, and following in the footsteps of our blessed Lord who did all things to please His Father. Truly there is no real happiness apart from this, and the Lord who has bought us with such a price as the giving of His life for us, is surely worthy of our whole hearts; and we know if He has our hearts, He will have our time, our strength, our all.
“Were the whole realm of nature ours,
That were an offering far too small;
Love that transcends our highest powers
Demands our soul, our life our all.”
May each one of us respond to Him for His wonderful love for us, remembering that our time here is short, and that it is here we have the opportunity to live for Him.