Happy New Year 2009 has arrived.  What does it hold in store for you and me?  If we read the reports from the banks and economists, or listen to the financial advisors and moneymen on the radio or TV, the future is all doom and gloom.  No one will have spare cash.  Many will have their homes re-possessed and redundancies will be at an all time high.  Happy New Year! It doesn’t sound much like it does it?  So what can we believe…  What can we do?  Shall we just accept what we are told and dread the future or shall we put our trust in one who is more caring than anyone else we will ever know?  The one who was born in a stable, grew up in Nazareth, and died on a cross to save us all from our sins so we could be reconciled with God the Father.  We won’t find that all our problems disappear.  We won’t suddenly discover everything is perfect, but we will find a peace in our hearts that we couldn’t have imagined.  For we all have a loving Heavenly Father who longs for us to recognise Him and acknowledge Him.  You don’t believe it?  Well why not read St John’s Gospel chapter 3 verse 16 and then ask God to reveal Himself to you?  You never know, 2009 could turn out to be the happiest New Year yet.  I pray it will be so.

By Liz Exley, Dewsbury Baptist Church. 

On behalf of Churches Together in Dewsbury