Let it Shine

Psalm 31:14,15 – "I trust in You, O Lord; I say, 'You are my God'. My times are in Your hands." The start of a new year is a time when almost everybody is thinking about the same thing... "What's in stall for the coming year?" Notice, the psalmist declared, "My times are in Your hands." If our trust is in God, and we have made Him Lord of 2010, we too will have the same confession of faith. And as a result, we shall be confident in the knowledge that our times (every moment of every day) are in God's capable hands. Who remembers New Year's Eve? There was something quite dramatic about watching 2009 slip away – counting the hours left in it, then the minutes, and finally, the seconds. Next, mid-night arrived and the old year had suddenly passed into history, never to come again. Time is a lot like a river and it's carrying all of us downstream. But where is it taking us? What are we going to do while we're on the journey? In today's busy society people have trouble with 'time management', with putting first things first. Someone might explain it this way: