As the worn-out, used-up year sets and the brand-new, never-been-used year dawns, HOPE.
And a reminder: “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.” (Or wanted to, but we turned.)
May you find peace and hope and confidence and faith in this reading:
The Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place. —Deut. 1:31.
I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. —In his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. —As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: so the Lord alone did lead him.
Even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. —This God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. —Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.
Exo. 19:4. -Isa. 63:9. -Deut. 32:11,12. Isa. 46:4. -Psa. 48:14. Psa. 55:22. -Matt. 6:25,32. I Sam. 7:12.
Source: Daily Light on the Daily Path | December 31, Morning