12/31/2025: New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve

Christians have typically preferred to worship as the year draws to a close.  New Year's Eve worship, then, often focuses on a review of God's faithfulness in the past year.  Other times the service anticipates God's blessing in the year to come.  Tonight's service intends to do both.

Common to the new year are resolutions to act and do things that have been neglected in the past year.  We usually play those deeds off as "brand new me" or "turning over a new leaf," but don't often combine them with the godly repentance of the sinful neglect that landed us in a situation that requires a new leaf.  With fear and trepidation we make these resolutions, half conceding that our unfaithfulness or neglect will probably be repeated.

That's reason enough to worship!  God's faithfulness chased after us all year long.  Here we stand on the cusp of a new year praying that God does NOT turn over a new leaf.  The same faithful grace that brought us through this past year is the same faithful grace we will depend on in the year to come.  And, we pray that God's grace will also empower us to put away our "old leaves" and produce good, godly fruit.

Unique to tonight's service - and completely appropriate as we enter into 2020 - is a "faith check." God did something similar to the Israelites as they travelled from Egypt to Canaan.  If God gave you the same faith check he gave the Israelites, would you pass?  Thank God for Jesus!

Whether our souls are caught up in the celebration of the moment, or whether we are wistfully reflecting our many years of life, God is the thread that ties our years together.  He's helped us yesterday, and he is our hope for tomorrow.  Based on the famous Psalm 90, Isaac Watts put it this way:

O God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come

Our shelter from the stormy blast,

And our eternal home.

Hymn 441:1

God bless both your worship and new year with prayer and fruit!

Pastor Mueller preaches

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