At the end of the year we are naturally reminded of the shortness of our life, and the speed of time passing. Time flies! We should be earnestly praying to God, So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. But our own brief life and its uncertainty turn our thoughts also to God’s everlasting and unchangeable being: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. He does not change in the past the present, nor the future—the same yesterday and today, and forever. Christ is always the same. Friends change, home changes, we ourselves change, but God is ever and at all times the faithful God.
What a rest and refuge there is for all who trust in Jesus Weak and failing, with a sense of many opportunities wasted and of much unfaithfulness during the past years still we can cast ourselves just as we are upon our abiding, unchanging, faithful God.
We look back at the mercies of the past year; we recall its sorrows and its trials, but every memory only leads us to trust ourselves more to our God—our ever faithful God.
WHAT A RESOURCE!