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I read Psalm 90 this morning, and the last few verses really spoke to me – so I thought I’d share them:

“Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.
Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.
Let us, your servants, see you work again; let our children see your glory.
And may the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful.
Yes, make our efforts successful!” Psalm 90:14-17 NLT

I need to see God’s unfailing love each morning, and let it replace my many weaknesses so I can do the best I can possibly do that day. Rather than being proud, I need to be humble. Rather than trying to please others, I need to do what’s right. Rather than being lazy, I need to act. Now.

I need to be happy about what I’m going through now, and look forward to what’s to come, rather than let the past and it’s many problems weigh me down. If I let the past dictate the future, my life will go nowhere and at the end of it I’ll wonder why I wasted all my time. I can’t put the future into the same sized box as my past.

And I want to see God work through what he has me do today, to show his approval of it, and to make what I do successful.

For today and for this year, I know I’m going to achieve great things, I’m going to be challenged, and I’m going to have a lot of fun.

Happy new year.