SMOKE-N-MIRRORS

by Sam J Christopher

Well it's out again. The same corny New Year themes:                 "Year of refreshing...Year of revival ...Year of rebuilding.....Year of restoration........ Blah blah blah......"

Who the heck comes up with these?

How come it's never any of these ↓

YEAR OF AFFLICTIONS 1 
Thessalonians 3:3 - Let no man be moved by these AFFLICTIONS: for you yourselves know that's what we are appointed unto.

YEAR OF DISASTERS 
2 Timothy 3:1 - Know this also, that in the last days PERILOUS times shall come.

YEAR OF HATE 
Matthew 10:22 - And you shall be HATED of all men for my name's sake: but he who endures to the end shall be saved.

YEAR OF LOSS 
Philippians 3:7 - But what things were gain to me, those I counted LOSS for Christ.

YEAR OF TEARS
Acts 20:19  - Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many TEARS, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews.

YEAR OF SUFFERINGS
2 Corinthians 1:5 - For as the SUFFERINGS of Christ abound in us, even so our consolation also abounds by Christ.

YEAR OF DEATH
2 Corinthians 1:9 - But we had the sentence of DEATH in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! MARANATHA!