Happy New Year! Happy New Decade!

Wow, what a trip, I can’t believe its already year 2020. Can you think back to where you were 10 years ago? So much as happened in the last 10 years 😲. In 2010, I was finishing college and looking for work as an accountant, now I’m serving SJCAC as the Youth pastor. So much has happened just in 2019 as well, students baptized, finished academics, dreams pursued. In 2020 and this new decade, I see God’s hand and favor as we continue to pursue his heart!

This morning in our Time with Abba, I was reading of a moment in time that separated the past and the present to the future. In the Book of Matthew, we are reading of a time when God was silent to the Israelites for 400 years, the Israelites were living under the oppression of a government that was not their own. We see John the Baptist coming out with a message from the far past which speaks of their present and their future.

2 …“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
    make straight paths for him.’” (Matthew 3:2-3)

John the Baptist saw and understood God’s word and already started to live out the promises of God’s word. Though he had no idea his own cousin would be the Messiah who would bring the Kingdom of God to earth.
As we enter into this New Decade:

• Look Back: Where were your disappointments, and frustrations? What are your feelings towards your past?
• Look Forward: What promises can you see in his Word which will speak into what he wants for this next decade?
• Look Now: What does it look like to live out God’s desired future for your life now?

I hope you’re as excited as I am about 2020! No matter what, let’s do this together!

Blessings,
Pastor David