Step-By-Step

December 30, 2016

Step-By-Step

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,

the love of God,

and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

2 Corinthians 13:14

Cheryl and I started a new tradition this year. Every Sunday morning at breakfast we pick a special blessing from the previous week and make a note of it on a slip of paper. We put the paper in a quart mason jar. Tomorrow night, on New Year’s Eve, we will gather around our Christmas tree and put all those slips of paper in a basket. Then, one by one, we will review all of our many blessings from 2016. (And, on January 1, 2017 we will start filling the jar once again!)

Wherever we find ourselves as the New Year begins to unfold in our life, one essential thing remains true. “In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness” (John 1:1, 14a). Whether we are dashing through life unabated by circumstances, or we are limping slowly and unsure of our next step, we are not alone. The One who became flesh is dashing, and limping with us, step-by-step.

I pray this eternal truth will guide you throughout the New Year: Your Heavenly Father is head-over-heels, passionately in love with you. You are His beloved child, with whom He is delighted and upon whom His favor rests.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.