These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Happy New Year, 2019!

These hopeful thoughts make bright the year
on a path, that's new and fully clear.
We'll look to the Lord, Who's greatly wise
above all souls, His strength applies.

Our sins are past but by God's Grace
we'll start a new effective pace,
believing Gospel Truth restores
our hearts to God, both mine and yours.

He died upon a cruel tree,
salvation bought for you and me.
He laid in state in a borrowed tomb
as swaddled as He was from the womb.

The third day hence He rose again.
That battle no more He'd need to win.
That Gospel in a weekend made
a faithful Home for hearts o'erlaid.

The past has gone the new has come
for all, who'd call His Merits, "Sum!"
The new year is a new Day now
for all, who's hearts to Him will bow.

All newness is from Christ, the King,
Who made the world as Aslan sings.
This new year is His Gift to us,
an opportunity of trust.

He holds all things by His lone will.
We live each day by His great skill.
All brokenness made whole in Him.
The joyful cup is filled to the brim.

by Jay O'Toole
on January 1st, 2019