3 January 2012
Leviticus 16:20-22 And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat; and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and send him away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness. The goat shall bear all their iniquities upon him to a solitary land; and he shall let the goat go in the wilderness.
At the beginning of a New Year it is good to focus on a new start, with expectations and hope that what this year brings will be filled with blessings. The period between Christmas and New Year has always been an opportunity when I clean and tidy preparing everything so that I start the New Year with a fresh outlook. The old has gone the new has arrived and this fills me with a purpose that in the last year seems to have faded.
So from me to you I wish you the very best for this year. In this coming year we will be inundated with memories of the long gone past, and in bringing these memories we are reminded both of the good and the bad times. Sadly for many they cannot remember the bad times without experiencing the pain of those memories and so never heal and truly reconcile. That is why each year in the Old Testament the sin of the past years were placed on the sacrificial goat, and the goat was chased out of town. So we should each year place all our bad memories on our goats and also send them packing. We have to much to look forward to without pondering and dwelling in the past.
Be encouraged today to be filled with hope that this year is the year that all will be fulfilled in our lives.
David
Point to ponder: God is the rock of our future.
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