Friday and it’s January 1, 2021. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I’m at an age now when, just because the calendar says it’s a new year, I don’t automatically swell with feelings of good cheer and optimism—especially after the year that’s just been. I suppose that makes me a pessimist but I prefer realist.

Of course, I want the slate wiped clean and the terrible events of 2020 to recede into obscurity. Nothing would make me happier than a year full of peace and love among humanity, particularly in the United States. Unfortunately, the changing of the year is not a firewall against the chaos, criminality, and subversion of America, which follows us into 2021 like Jason Voorhees in his latest sequel.

The blatant election theft is still unresolved and, as we prepared to step over the threshold of the new year, a new strain of the Chinese Lung Pox was discovered in Britain, then here in California and Colorado. If all goes well, Dr. Anthony Fauci says we should achieve “some semblance of normality” by next fall. Yippee.

I told one of my kids the other day that by any objective measure, we live in fascinating times. 2020 will be a year that is studied by historians as a watershed moment in world history and in American history. Come January 6 we will know whether our Constitutional Republic will hold or go the way of the Roman empire. The ignorant, easily-triggered youth who riot over irrational causes and demand the destruction of our culture have no idea what they’re asking for. If Biden and Harris are inaugurated on January 20, it may be that they (and the rest of us) will get it, good and hard.

The only thing in which I place my confidence that stays the same from moment to moment, day to day and year to year is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13:8

This world is full of chaos and rapidly shifting ethics, philosophies, power structures and alliances, most of which we have no control over. That’s why God is referred to as a rock, a fortress, a refuge, a shield and a stronghold.

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
    my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,
    my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalm 18:2

No matter what 2021 brings my faith is ultimately in God and His sovereignty, not what happens politically or culturally. I’ll still call it like I see it in all three realms of faith, culture and politics, but behind it all is an unshakeable confidence in God’s will being done.

Regardless of my own view, I do sincerely wish all of you who read this blog grace and peace in 2021, that God will be near to you, and that He will have mercy on our nation.