{"id":3787,"date":"2010-12-31T07:38:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T15:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2010-12-31T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T16:06:00","slug":"yesterday-12-31-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=3787","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday 12-31-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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December 31, 2010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
You shall not go out with haste, . . . for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard \u2014Isaiah 52:12<\/a><\/div>\n
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All my yesterdays, todays and tomorrows hold nothing for me without you…. all that I am and shall ever be is hidden and safe in You…..<\/address>\n
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Security from Yesterday.<\/strong> \u201c. . . God requires an account of what is past\u201d (Ecclesiastes 3:15<\/a>). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise when we remember our yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God\u2019s grace tends to be lessened by the memory of yesterday\u2019s sins and blunders. But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.<\/p>\n

Security for Tomorrow.<\/strong> \u201c. . . the Lord will go before you . . . .\u201d This is a gracious revelation\u2014 that God will send His forces out where we have failed to do so. He will keep watch so that we will not be tripped up again by the same failures, as would undoubtedly happen if He were not our \u201crear guard.\u201d And God\u2019s hand reaches back to the past, settling all the claims against our conscience.<\/p>\n

Security for Today.<\/strong> \u201cYou shall not go out with haste . . . .\u201d As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness. But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays hold broken and irreversible things for us. It is true that we have lost opportunities that will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ.<\/p>\n

Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.<\/p>\n

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December 31, 2010<\/p>\n

Journal Entry for Today-JDV<\/p>\n

The last day of the year and is it me or is God really organizing my thoughts and vision of a fresh look at life in the New Year? Is He sorting things so that I see and feel\u00a0His hand on my past and on my future?<\/p>\n

And God says\u2026\u201dYour culture and the pervasive communications around the New Year event have prepared your mind for the fertile seeds of hope for tomorrow. It is right inside this cultural field of hope that the Holy Spirit can operate inside your heart and mind and that of many, many others. Be aware that many are looking for the very hope that lives within you and shines on your face. Be sensitive and available to share your hope. The hope you have found in Christ Jesus.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday December 31, 2010 You shall not go out with haste, . . . for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard \u2014Isaiah 52:12 \u00a0 All my yesterdays, todays and tomorrows hold nothing for me without you…. all that I am and shall ever be is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3794,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}