Closing out the year with Oswald Chambers:

Security from Yesterday. "God requireth that which is past."
At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for
the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise from remembering the
yesterdays. Our present enjoyment of God's grace is apt to be checked
by the memory of yesterday's sins and blunders. But God is the God of
our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them in order to turn the
past into a ministry of spiritual culture for the future. God reminds
us of the past lest we get into a shallow security in the present.

Security for To-morrow. "For the Lord will go before
you." This is a gracious revelation, that God will garrison where we
have failed to. He will watch lest things trip us up again into like
failure, as they assuredly would do if He were not our rereward. God's
hand reaches back to the past and makes a clearing-house for
conscience.

Security for To-day. "For ye shall not go out with
haste." As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste
of impetuous, unremembering delight, nor with the flight of impulsive
thoughtlessness, but with the patient power of knowing that the God of
Israel will go before us. Our yesterdays present irreparable things to
us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return,
but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive
thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on
the bosom of Christ.

Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

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