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Show The new year is time for new beginning By REV. ERIC V. KAELBERER Pastor Cross of Christ Lutheran Church New Year's, it's a time for new beginnings. Do you know anyone who puts in writing their "New Year's Resolutions?" I do. He is a man of great thought and deep feeling, feel-ing, a man of vision and action. The other day 1 asked this friend why he found it necessary to put in writing what he hoped to accomplish for the next year. His answer: "Because "Be-cause that's how God did it." As we talked he clarified his statement. He meant that in the Holy Bible God recorded both what He did and what He promised to do. What is amazing is that everything ev-erything He said He would do He has done. His batting average is 1,000, His completion average is 100 percent. That is because of who He is: God Almighty (El Shaddai, in the Hebrew). This God the Old Testament Testa-ment calls "El Shaddai" is the same One who spoke and everything every-thing came to be. He is the same One who sent His Only-Begotten Eternal Son in our flesh, to take our sins, that we might know His love in adoption as His beloved children. chil-dren. As we enter the year 1988 the absolute truth is that the same God who is our creator and our redeemer redeem-er is also our protector and provider. provid-er. He is "El Shaddai" (God Almighty). With that assurance we can and must look to 1988 as a year in which God's Almighty blessing and favor rests on those who trust in Him. As you and yours enter this new year of 1988 it is my fervent prayer that you do so with the God who the scriptures tell us, "Fills all in all" (Ephesians 1:23). May the full assurance of His love, for Jesus' sake, be yours this year and always. al-ways. Amen! |