Happy 2022!

         We hear much about resolutions, turning over a new leaf at the beginning of every year. We eat black eyed peas, collard or turnip greens and hog jowls supposing they will magically bring us money health and happiness. Sadly, that is only a pipe dream propagated by an old wife’s tale. Truth is for most we will find our own lives about the same as last year. If we have money, we will have to work for it. If we are happy, we must have that attitude. Our health is vulnerable to many variables. However God has given us good advice for success in life for every year, Listen closely to His instructions to Joshua.

         (Joshua 1:6-9) Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

           May we take the advice of the apostle James. (James 1:22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.