It’s hard to believe that it has been ten years since all of the chaos of the Y2K scare.  You remember that, don’t you?  Everyone feared that all of our computers would fail to turn over to the new millennium and life as we knew it would come to a stand still.  The end of the world some feared.  Before that was the touted return of Christ in 1994 along with many others, and now of course, we have 2012 to look forward to.

I for one have no clue when our King will return and restore all things, although there certainly are signs that suggest this time is imminent. But whether that is imminent as in next week or the next generation, I for one am thankful for another year of Grace, of our God staying his hand as He prepares His bride.

Don’t get me wrong.  I am looking forward to Jesus’ return, even longing for it on days; and yet it is His will that has been most capturing me of late.  And that will seems to be to wait, at least for now.  How gracious of our God.  How kind.  Another year to stand with Him in the midst of this battle.  Another day to be trained and fathered by the one who knows my heart and who delights in me.  Another minute to enjoy the adventure of trusting His plan for my life.

2010 is charging toward us; and with it … opportunity.  I don’t know what that opportunity will be for you, and I only have a hint of what it will be for me, but I do know this:  it will be good-- very, very good.  Our King has plans for us, plans that He knows and has established from before the beginning of time. They are plans to prosper us and not to harm us, plans for a hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).

Looking forward to the unfolding of that future with you.

To the King,

David