For the New Year

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.

Revelation 22:21

After all that has taken place before hand--the highs and lows, the goodness and the difficulties, the unity and the conflicts, the very last verse in the Bible ends with this gift, God's grace.

Grace is the love and protection that God gives freely to his creation every moment. Of course, those who have gone before us, as well as ourselves, have done nothing to deserve this generous gift and yet throughout God repeatedly gives a gift that sometimes we aren't able to recognize--grace.

As you look back over this year look specifically for evidence of God's gift of grace. It may have been a great year for you. It may have been a year of discouragement. Or, perhaps your year was without anything significant. Covering it all was God's love and protection--God's grace.

Grace is the gift that will keep on giving in 2010 as well. Live 2010 with this assurance--the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ is with you.