Sunday Scripture

Greetings my friends. It is Sunday December 29TH 2024, and this is the day that our LORD has made. Let us rejoice. Let us be glad in it. Let us celebrate this great new day of believing, following, trusting, loving, and being more like our Lord + Savior Jesus Christ. Let us love our neighbor as ourself.

It’s my 52ND and final #SundayScripture of 2024. It’s my 340TH edition since 2018. I enjoy writing this feature each week, and I’ll continue to do so in 2025. Thank You for coming back here every Sunday to read what I’ve written about our Glorious God Almighty !

Personally – 2024 was a great year for me. It was a year of transition – life-changing transition. I retired from the USAF after nearly 39 years of military and civil service. For the first time since the age of 13 – I’m no longer working for money.

I became a full-time resident of my dream home in my dream neighborhood in my dream part of Florida – spending 88.5% of 2024 at home in Sebring (up from 54% in 2023).

I chose a new home church in September 2023, and in 2024 I assimilated myself into my church – not just on Sunday mornings, but also during the week. In November I was secretly selected to be part of the Directional Board of Highlands Community Church. In December I was publicly affirmed at our annual business meeting. I officially begin serving in that role as the new year starts.

God has blessed me with a physically and socially active life here in Sebring – complemented by a strong family of friends and neighbors at home, at church, and at the Museum (Sebring Historical Society). I’m far busier now than I ever was back at my previous place of residence.

I’m in my 19TH year of salvation here on this fantastic journey. (Salvation started during the 3RD week of August of 2006, and it continues to this day.) I did not want my 19TH year to be like my 18TH year. My 18TH year was great, but I wanted my 19TH year to be greater. You can’t get greater if you keep doing the same old things that you previously did. God created a new thing for you to do, and He wants you to trust Him as you move forth. Do that in 2025. Do something new. Move in a different direction. God wants your 2025 to be greater than your 2024 – no matter how great (or not) your 2024 was.

“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
Behold – I am doing a new thing. Now it springs forth. Do you not perceive it ?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
(Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV)

My testimony is featured each week here on #SundayScripture – whether it’s part of a sermon, a testimony, or just me writing about the events of the past week. Hopefully it encourages you and inspires you to seek the Lord – and get closer to Him with each new day.

If you wish to learn more about the God I know – then stay tuned to #SundayScripture. The best is yet to come !

Thank you for reading my blog for this day, and may:

The LORD bless you, and keep you.
The LORD make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. AMEN.