New Year's Eve Traditions

        New year's Eve probably has many different traditions for many different people.  We lived in the country about 2 1/2 miles from town.  We would stay up until midnight.  Once the final minute arrived, we would take the 12 gauge shotgun out and fire a round just to make a lot of noise.  The cornfield probably has a few pellets from the many shells that were fired over the years.  People have different traditions if you want to call them that. Jeremiah 33:3 says, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." 
      As you can tell by the traditions of my family, we were not doing anything close to being spiritual.  There were times however in some years where we would go to church for a special New Year's Eve celebration.  The night would have a Christian film, a lot of snacks and around 11:30 PM, we would gather for prayer.  Our intentions were to be in prayer as the new year arrived.  Other times, we might even have communion.  The arrival of January 1st would begin a new year and even a new year of goals.  Jeremiah here reminds us that we do need to "call upon the LORD."  He will show us great and mighty things we don't know anything about.  Your hearing and your vision are all affected by your mortal body which the older you get, the weaker it becomes.  The Bible gives us a glimpse of future things.  It whets our appetite so to speak, of things to come.  We look up at the universe from the hills of earth and see tiny lights in the sky.  The telescopes of today that roam about in space, however, give us pictures of scenes that cannot imagine exist.  Pictures of this earth would be fantastic but just imagine the pictures of heaven!  Perhaps, as you crawl into bed after having fired the shotgun or watching the ball drop, you might also say a prayer to God and ask Him to show you some of those great and mighty things.  It would be a great way to start the new year.  I am again reminded about Scripture and Prayer to conform us to the image of God.  May we all spend more time with the Creator both through the reading of His Word and in those times of prayer.  Praise God today that He speaks to us and does show us great and mighty things.