Getting ready for a new Year

The week between Christmas and New Year is always a down time for the Steel family.  We have just finished our big push for Christmas and this year was especially busy with the big Christmas dinner so wonderfully lead by Cara Parateau and her cousin and friend Kim.  This week I have been focusing on the radio program I host on Am 930 the Light.  New week I will be working on things for the church for 2012.  To the point of what I writing on this day.  As we approach 2012, what should we be looking for?  We do we think 2012 holds for us?  Like any new year we hope better things personally.  This year I believe we will see more economic problems, more climate change, greater trouble on the world stage, higher rates of crime, higher personal debt and greater moral failures.  Why so pessimistic you ask?  Because the world has not changed and neither have the majority of people.  True reformation only comes through Jesus Christ.  Until we have a great revival in Canada and the Western world, greed, poverty, crime, inequality and social ills will rule the day.  My prayer is this year we would see a break through for God's glory.  This can start on a small scale when it happens to us and we decide to effect our world's for Christ.  Gypsy Smith was asked once how to have a revival.  His answer went like this, "Draw a circle around yourself and don't leave the circle until God has changed your heart."  Good advice.