Our Couple’s Bible Study Group has been reading Dr. David Jeremiah’s new book with the same title as this article: Where Do We Go From Here? How Tomorrow’s Prophecies Foreshadow Today’s Problems. Each chapter addresses from a Christian perspective the problems we see in the world today, and then Dr. Jeremiah shows how everything we’re experiencing is foretold in Scripture. But he doesn’t leave us in despair as he points out how we as Christians are to be a light in this dark world. That’s our role. That’s our purpose. That’s our goal.
Regardless of what is happening in the world, God wants us to stay focused on His Word and His Ways! To ask ourselves if we’re spending as much time in God’s Word as we do in Satan’s world. That’s a challenging question and one that will influence our perspective and perception as world events unfold.
Nothing we’re watching is a surprise to God. He predicted it all in the Bible and we are privileged to be alive and given the awesome opportunity to participate in God’s miraculous plan. You may not be a resolution maker for the New Year, but you can determine where you’re going from here in the New Year.
Dave and I just celebrated 29 years of marriage and one thing we’ve done consistently on our anniversary is to sit down together and pray over goals and plans for our marriage in the upcoming year while reviewing how many we achieved in the previous year. We ask ourselves “Where are we going from here?” We don’t always accomplish our goals, sometimes we modify or discard them, and often we carry them over to the next year. This exercise gives us each an opportunity to discuss what’s important to us individually and together. One might want to focus on tangible accomplishments while the other is thinking more about trips and fun. We try to make sure there’s a good balance of practical with potential.
How would you answer the question in your own life of where to go from here in 2022, regardless of what happens in our world? I think Dr. Jeremiah’s closing words in his Introduction to his book are a great place to start. They inspire me and I hope they do you too.
“Come, join me in dedicating the rest of your earthly life to living by biblical convictions, exalting in the triumph of the gospel, and doing all you can to repair the structures of society and to stand in the gap before the Lord on behalf of the land. Don’t be fearful, and don’t let the times overwhelm you. This world will not end in rubble, but in His return! Our risen and exalted Lord Jesus Christ, our enthroned Savior—He knows the way forward. He will show us where to go from here.” Dr. David Jeremiah
24 To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— 25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude 1:24-25
Happy Blessed New Year!
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