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New Year 2010 Message of His Eminence The Archbishop Samuel T
New Year 2010 Message of His Eminence The Archbishop Samuel T
New Year 2010 Message of His Eminence The Archbishop Samuel T
2009 has finished its career and is fading away. Started with deep
economic recession worldwide there have been a lot of ups and downs in life,
families, business and government around the globe. Many experienced
hardships and failures in 2009 and many other experienced success. Is this a
result of the economic environment and situation each one of us life in or a
harvest of our own deeds over the year period?
At the porch of this new year 2010, having learned some lessons
from the ending one, I suggest that each one of us asks himself this
question:”How to be successful in 2010?” The epistle of James 4.13-17 gives
us four answers to this question, which I’d like to share with you:
Man is only steam. He can be rubbed out of the earth any time.
God wakes us up in the morning, protects us and gives us the breath of life.
He is our provider. We need to plan with him. If anyone wants to be
successful in 2010, he needs to plan with God. For the bible says:”Trust God
with your projects, and they shall be successful”.
God has set each one of us in this life with and for a purpose.
Each one is God’s project, God’s solution to a specific problem in this world.
To be successful one needs to follow God’s will for his life. All plans that He
has for him is for his well-being and are not detrimental to him. Thus, no one
will live his life unless he abides in and lines up with God’s will. 2010 will be a
happy and new year to you, only if you submit to God’s will for your life. You
success will be determined by the will of God .
In all our program this year let us pursue and do good, do the will
of God. What is correct and righteous. We need to put altruism in motion and
demonstrate divine love toward our neighbor. Which that we want people to
do for us, let us do that for others.
What is good is accepted and acceptable by the societal values
and lines up with the word of God. It is also what edifies others and doesn’t
cause them to stumble. As we sow good around us we will reap good at the
end.
The word of God is God’s breath. It is the will of God and the
mirror which allows us to find out how we look before others. It is to be
listened to and put into practice. Two categories of believers will be
distinguished over the new year: those who listen to the word of God only
and those who hear the word and put it into practice.
We all enjoyed the Advent this year as the new mandate and
term that The Lord has set before us. We expect good things from God this
year as Socrates said:”Man everywhere and every time longs for well-being”.
2010 will be a year of SUCCESS for those that wait on the Lord and the
theme is: “ Trust God with your projects and they shall be
successful”. This success will be guaranteed as we plan with God, depend
on His will, do good and found our life upon His Word.