Our Expectation in the New Year

This time of year is a time of reflection and anticipation. We reflect upon the accomplishments and setbacks of the year that is past. Nineteen hundred and Seventy-eight is past, never to return again. For this is the inescapable character of time which keeps all of us in its grasp as long as we live. The Psalmist calls time an "ever rolling stream." The events and happenings of the past are securely locked in the book of God to be revealed only at the last day. We cannot change the past, but...