If you’re like me, you looked forward
to 2021. A new start, a fresh slate to create beautiful memories. To laugh and
hope again. Instead, it seems the beast of 2020 threatens to engulf those
hopes. Without a doubt, our nation is hurting—collectively and personally.
Yet, as Christians, our hope is in an
unfailing love—that of God through our Savior Jesus Christ. God looks down from
heaven and sees us. Wow, such comforting thought!
God is not caught unaware of any trial we
walk through. No matter how bleak the present feels and the future looks, we
can embrace that hope and the strength that comes from the Holy Spirit residing
in us.
‘Not by might nor by power, but by my
Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty. Zechariah 4:6
As we face next week and the months ahead as a nation,
let us consider this prayer from President George Washington:
I now make it my earnest
prayer, that God would have the United States in his holy protection, that he
would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination
and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for
one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and
particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that
he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love
mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper
of mind, which were the Characteristics of the Devine Author of our blessed
Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we
can never hope to be a happy Nation. Amen (adapted from Washington’s Circular
Letter to the States, in June 1783)
May God continue to bless us, according to His holy
will.
I’d love to join you in prayer! Please leave a comment or email me your requests.
What Bible verse sustains and encourages you in difficult times?
Blessings,
Laura
May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you. Psalm 33:22
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