When the culture shouts, “Happy New Year!”, it condenses best wishes for economic stability, if not prosperity, good health, including freedom from accidents, marital & family harmony, if not the arrival of a new little one, and of course, the illusive world peace. Most everyone would concur that if these good blessings would all prevail, then people would enjoy a happy new year, all year.
But this is not a utopian world – as we all know all too well. Bad things happen to even the best of people. Besides, and more significantly, you and I can amass worldly wealth, and retain the picture of health, and sustain a model home life, and enjoy personal peace (world peace, illusive, remember?) but the compilation of even all these good blessings does not guarantee happiness.
“So what does?”, you ask. What elicits lasting happiness? Even for the short term, what would make for a happy 2017? If I could reduce the Biblical answer down to one simple phrase, it would be this one our church has crafted for this year’s motto: “On earth as in Heaven, God’s Will for 1-7.”
Why not join us this Sunday to learn more about what we wish to do at FFF in 2017 to fulfill this hope?And the way we seek to present this mission is through the format of an elder-panel, the leaders of our church articulating what we plan to see this coming year.