{"id":574,"date":"2009-12-31T07:16:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=574"},"modified":"2009-12-31T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:07:30","slug":"yesterday-12-31-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday 12-31-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
December 31, 2009<\/div>\n
Yesterday<\/div>\n

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Here I am a sinner\r\nBroken and in need of You\r\nTake my life and wash my fears away\r\nFor You are the Great I AM\r\nRest assured, I feel Your hand\r\nHolding me until the darkness clears\r\nA Father to the fatherless\r\nRedeemer of my soul\r\nMy Life is Yours forever\r\nI want the world to know\r\n\r\nYour mercy saved me\r\nMercy made me whole\r\nYour mercy found me\r\nCalled me as Your own\r\n\r\nHere I stand a child of Yours\r\nBroken and in need of You\r\nBreak these chains and wash my guilt away Healer of my brokenness\r\nMy weary soul will find its rest\r\nYou are my strength, the lifter of my head\r\nYou\u2019re greater than my yesterdays\r\nYou hold me close today\r\nYou\u2019re the Lord of my tomorrows\r\nMy heart will always say\r\nYou\u2019re greater than my yesterdays\r\nYou hold me close today\r\nYou\u2019re the Lord of my tomorrows\r\nMy heart will always say\r\n\r\nYou called me as Your own\r\nYou called me as Your own\r\nThank You for Your mercy\r\nThank You for Your mercy\r\n\r\nYou called me as Your own\r\nYour own<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
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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<\/div>\n
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Security from Yesterday.<\/strong> “. . . God requires an account of what is past” (\u00a0Ecclesiastes 3:15<\/a> \u00a0). 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> “. . . the Lord will go before you . . . .” 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 “rear guard.” And God\u2019s hand reaches back to the past, settling all the claims against our conscience.<\/p>\n
Security for Today.<\/strong> “You shall not go out with haste . . . .” 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
Help provide facility for the gift of conviction that can lead to direction from the Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
December 31, 2009 Yesterday Here I am a sinner Broken and in need of You Take my life and wash my fears away For You are the Great I AM Rest assured, I feel Your hand Holding me until the darkness clears A Father to the fatherless Redeemer of my soul My Life is Yours […]<\/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\/574"}],"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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}