From: "Phil Rembleski"

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Sent: Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 5:41 AM

Subject: 12-31-25 THOUGHTS

12-31-25   THOUGHTS


HAPPY LAST DAY of  2025, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!     How will I deal with 2026?  
Ps 90:12    So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

Poet T.S. Elliott wrote in a poem,
                “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”
At my age, I do not want to “whimper out!”  There’s something admirable about a shooting star!

I believe John 10:10b applies to old folks as much as the young!  “ I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
Ps 92:13-15   Planted in the house of the LORD, They will flourish in the courts of our God. 14  They will still yield fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and very green,  15  To declare that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

I’d like more “power of person”,  not for myself, but for my God who blesses me so abundantly.
It would need to be a humble, loving, approachable power, something that draws rather than commands.  I’d like to be a stronger influence for all I believe to be true and right.   As a dear friend put it, I want to be a “shiny person.”  

I’d like for the bearing of fruit to be “more done and finished”, than a wish  and a thought!  The same is true of love and fellowship with my brothers and sisters.  I want us to actually motivate each other on some consistent basis.   Php 1:27 “Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;”

Our Prayer:
Lord, motivate us to become in 2026, a loving, working fellowship, disciples of Christ who make disciples.  May active, powerful prayer take its place in our midst, both individually and collectively.  O God, help us to use this special gift from You more potently and effectively.  Refresh, awaken and revive us, O Lord!  Help us to magnify Your name in all that we do.  
In the precious name of Jesus,   Amen.