New Year

You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new. (Lev. 26:10)

The larger context of this verse is blessings on Israel for faithfulness to God, but as 21st century Christians we can draw secondary application from a promise made to God’s chosen people.
1. Faithfull service to God provides not only sustainment for the current year but also the next.
2. God’s blessings are not limited by time.
3. Past blessings provide the ground work for current and future blessings.
4. With a view to the greater context of this chapter blessings result from faithfulness and cursing from unfaithfulness.
5. Faithfulness to God on our part results in God’s provision for our needs, not necessarily our wants.
6. Faithfulness on our part results in the using of past blessings with a view to the promise of future provision.
7. Our challenge is to clear out the old to make room for the new.
Have a blessed new year.