Confidence for the New YearSample

Certain comfort

Do you know what the new year holds for you? Are you certain? There’s nothing quite so uncomfortable as uncertainty. The uncertainties steal away our peace. Will the value of your house go up? Will your mom’s next appointment give her a clean bill of health? Will your parents stop fighting? If only you and I could know what’s going to happen, we could finally have some peace.

For all he had been through in his life, King David reminds us in the words of Psalm 139 that if we’re looking for peace in the knowledge of what might come, we are asking the wrong questions. The answer that David gives from God’s Word is not found in knowing what the future holds for our health or our wealth. The comfort God talks about through David is not even found in our knowledge at all. Listen to where David points us for certain comfort in uncertain days: “You have searched me, Lord, and you know me” (Psalm 139:1).

What does God know? He knows you and me. He knows our doubts and fears. He knows our sin. But he also knows that he has chosen to love us with an everlasting love. He knows that we were worth going to a cross for. He knows that he can make everything that happens in the new year work for our good. He knows that he wants us in heaven with him. Certain comfort is not that we know the future but that God does.