On New Year’s Eve, it is customary to look back at the year that just passed, and to make predictions about the year to come. It’s been a tough year for many, with the financial meltdown and recession, possibly the loss of a job, and many other problems that we’ve gone through. We don’t know if the next year will be a better one or not. Regardless of the presence of a new president in the White House, he still has to deal with disasters that currently exist and new ones that may yet occur.

What I can depend upon without any doubt is that God will be with me in the next year, just as he’s been with me all of my life. We are not promised an easy road; we are promised that Jesus will be with us every step of the way. He told his disciples in John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

On their 1981 album, Fools For Christ, The Songwriters had this great song, One Less Tear For God To Shed. If you don’t know Jesus personally, in this new year to come take that step of faith and accept the salvation that He has made available to all. Don’t give your Father in heaven any more reasons to shed tears on your behalf.

Tonight there’ll be laughter
And music in heaven
Another wayward boy
Has finally come home

I can hear angels
Praising the Father
And raising their voices in
A hallelujah song

I know I’ve never given God much reason to smile
Just been a tear in His eye
But tonight I’m one less tear for God to shed

Jesus washed me in His blood
And He raised me from the dead
Filled me with the Holy Ghost
And now I’m Spirit-led

Tonight I’m one less tear for God to shed

I’m never alone now
‘Cause He lives inside me
He lifted the heavy load
I carried for so long

Now I can’t help but
Tell everybody
I’m headin’ for paradise
And you can come along!

You know you’ve never given God much reason to smile
You can wipe one tear from His eye
And tonight be one less tear for God to shed

Let Jesus wash you in His blood
And He’ll raise you from the dead
Fill you with the Holy Ghost
And when you’re Spirit-led

Then you’ll be one less tear for God to shed

Tonight I’m one less tear for God to shed
Yes, tonight I’m one less tear for God to shed
Don’t you know
Tonight I’m one less tear for God to shed

[spoken]
If you’ve never asked Jesus into your life
You can do it right now
And be one less tear

For God to shed

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