We will take a brief pause from Proverbs to reflect on the New Year.  I guess we can first reflect on last year.  Whatever it brought us, good or bad, is now gone, and can never be changed, so we cannot allow it to determine what the coming year is going to be.  We may learn from the past, but we cannot attempt to live there and find all the purpose and joy that we should in today.  As a person gets older, there is a tendency to spend more time reflecting on the past, but we cannot afford to allow this to cause us to stop living in the hope of today. As followers of Christ, we must remember that time is really of no consequence.  The time passed so far is but the blink of an eye compared to the everlasting life we have through our faith in Christ.  As far as this coming year, 2019, that we start today, we need to look forward to it with hope, since we as Christians should always be filled with the hope of Christ in our lives.  If we are to make any New Year's resolutions, the first should be to put the will of God first and to live by our faith in Christ.  Though we may make plans for the coming year, we must live today as if there were no tomorrow for us.  This moment is all that we are promised in this world, and we must make the most of it.  Just as we cannot live in the past, we cannot live in the future.  We can only live in the now, so what we do with today is all that we can control.  Many resolutions will be made today, and broken before the week is out, but we, as followers of Christ, need to resolve to follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit everyday, and this is a resolution that we should not make figuring we will soon break it.  Whatever this new year brings, whether good or bad, we must put God first, then everything else will be ok.  So, happy New Year and may God bless you during this coming year as you live by your faith in Him.